On Tuesday July 1 2003 2:39 pm, John Pettigrew wrote:
You wrote:
I did not find anything that looked like I could use it on kernel.org.
It's not entirely obvious, because of the way it's organised. You would need to search the changelogs for the visor files for "Zire".
On the other hand, I could get newer visor.c and visor.h files from 8.2 distro and compile those, since I would assume them to be similar
That should work.
Left to my own devices I would download the currently stable kernel source file, unpack into its own directory under /usr/src/ then run "make modules" and "make modulesinstall", then re-copy the new visor modules into my current /lib/modules/directorytree. Ok? or am I fully revealing my ignorance?
That sounds about right - I'm no kernel guru! I think you might need to do "make oldconfig" or something like that, but I'd ask on the list first to make sure nothing goes wrong!
HTH
John
Thanks for your reply. Tried all of those, still no-go. When I looked at the visor.c and visor.h files, not knowing what I was really looking for I did see the Zire listed in a couple of places, but not the Zire71. Perhaps that is still not supported yet. I will continue to watch changelogs. So far I still have not discovered the proper USB file to use either. On the other hand I was able to sync thru Win98SE in VMWare, so that program was able to work with a USB port and access it thru linux. I have been unwilling to upgrade to 8.2 since I use the Highpoint (I know, fake) raid controller for raid 0 and raid 1 setups, and have had problems in the past trying to make my own kernel. Highpoint's kernel has worked well; they are just a little slow getting it out. Usually appears about the time a new release is ready. Richard