On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 RK.Rajeev wrote :

Dear Sameer,

The file scripts/basic/fixdep is found in the kernel source tree. Alternatively, it should also be in the /lib/modules/2.6.xx/build directory. if it is not finding it, it means the makefile is not setting the proper KERNEL_SRC parameter. try moving the quickcam driver into either of the mentioned directories, and see if you can get it to compile there. Also, the /lib/modules folder usually requires you to be root to get in and write stuff. Try compiling it as root. Just a thought.

Regards R. K. Rajeev

Well thanks for your inputs Mr. Rajeev. I did try to compile the driver (as a root) by specifying the kernel source directory with LINUX_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.zz. and the modules directory as MODULE_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.zz and it almost seemed to work but once again it looks like there is another file from the same scripts/mod dir which is missing. The error given this time was as follows

************************************************************************ Building modules, stage 2. make -rR -f /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/scripts/Makefile.modpost scripts/mod/modpost -m -i /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/Module.symvers -s /dev/null /home/galbotrix/qc-usb-messenger-0.8/quickcam.o /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 127 make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24' make: *** [quickcam.ko] Error 2 ls: quickcam.ko: No such file or directory [!] Looks like the driver compilation failed. Did you get any error messages above? If asking for help, show what error messages you got. WARNING: If you press Enter, I'll try to continue anyway, but this probably will fail. You SHOULD press Ctrl+C now. Press Ctrl+C to quit, Enter to continue --->

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Just had another thought, as I was going through the README.txt file of the driver it said that the build dir in /lib/modules/2.6.xx should be a link to the kernel source i.e /usr/src/linux-2.6.xx. But the the link in my case shows that build directory is hard linked with /usr/src/linux-2.6.xx-obj/i386/default directory. I tried to change this link but despite being root its not allowing me a hard link change. Can you or anybody please tell me how to do the changeover, any other inputs are welcome as well.

Thanks

rgds Sameer

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