[WBEL-users] Trying to Compile Driver for ITE8212 for Liberation Respin 1 (fwd)

[Michael Brennen]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Kelvin Param wrote:

> I am trying to compile a driver for the ITE8212 RAID interface that
> is built onto the Gigabyte GA-K7N400 Pro motherboard.
> 
> I downloaded the driver source from the ITE web site.
> 
> I've successfully compiled the 2.4.21-15.EL kernel from source and
> compiled the modules but I cannot get the WBEL 3 Liberation Respin 1
> installer to recognize the driver.

I had some fits with this but finally got it to work by modprobing the
compiled driver by hand.  IIRC unless you build a versionless module
(a change to the Makefile) you may have to build two, one against the
regular kernel and one against the BOOT kernel.  Proceed with the
installation until it tells you it can't find any mass storage
devices, then flip to alt-F2; by that stage anaconda has started a
shell.  Mount the driver floppy and see if you can't manually modprobe
the module.  It took several iterations to get right but we now have a
system up and running on it.  Just remember that when you upgrade the
kernel you must recompile the driver and copy the module to the
correct /lib/modules kernel tree, then rerun mkinitrd.

   -- Michael