[PARPORT] ftape modules in the wrong place

From: Tony Laszlo (laszlo@gol.com)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2000 - 15:10:46 EDT

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    Hello all.

    I am trying to get ftape set up for a Trakker 250,
    the parallel port tape drive. I understand that, while
    this kernel (2.2.9) allows one to enable ftape, this
    built-in ftape does not work with the parallel port
    Trakker. I recompiled the kernel, selected "no" for
    the ftape, recompiled the modules and installed them.
    (also selected Y for paride.o ; I do not use the
    parallel port for printing and would like to have it
    set only for use with this tape drive...) I then installed
    the rpm 4.02-1 ftape package and rebooted. insmod ftape
    gives an error of "cannot find that module". Found the
    reason. The installation of this rpm package put ftape.o
    and the others modules in /lib/modules/2.0.35/misc/
    but my current modules are in /lib/modules/2.2.9/ .
    I tried rebuilding the package with the source
    rpm, but got the following error.
    Is there a painless workaround?

    Thanks!

    Tony Laszlo
    Jiyugaoka, Tokyo

    -rw-r--r-- claus/sweethome 1892 1998-05-10 22:41
    ftape-4.02/scripts/MAKEDEV.ftape
    + STATUS=0
    + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
    + cd ftape-4.02
    + chown -R root .
    + chgrp -R root .
    + chmod -R a+rX,g-w,o-w .
    + echo 'Patch #0:'
    Patch #0:
    + patch -p0 -s
    + echo 'Patch #1:'
    Patch #1:
    + patch -p0 -s
    The text leading up to this was:
    --------------------------
    |diff -uNr ftape-4.02.orig/MCONFIG ftape-4.02/MCONFIG
    |--- ftape-4.02.orig/MCONFIG Tue Aug 18 08:18:17 1998
    |+++ ftape-4.02/MCONFIG Fri Oct 9 00:05:31 1998
    --------------------------
    File to patch:
    Skip this patch? [y] y
    5 out of 5 hunks ignored
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.35059 (%prep)

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