building a specific driver in kernel src tree

[sri]

Actually am using Centos-5.5 (kernel-2.6.18-194.el5) and trying to overwrite
the e1000 drives with those in kernel-2.6.22.
After resolving few symbols at compile time, when trying to load the kernel
with this change, the e1000 probe method is failing with the error
e1000: 0000:01:00.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid
e1000: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -5
e1000: 0000:01:00.1: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid
e1000: probe of 0000:01:00.1 failed with error -5

Am trying to debug that.

Any help/pointers on why this occurs and how to resolve it?

--Sri


On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:35 AM, sri <bskmohan at gmail.com> wrote:

> the config had it as CONFIG_E1000=y
> Does =y or =m make any difference?
>
> still not working.
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:49, sri <bskmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As part of learning, I have added few debug statements to the code at
>> > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c (e1000_probe function).
>> > Now to compile this, am doing make -C
>> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5PAE/build
>> > M=`pwd` modules under drivers/net/e1000 dir.
>> >
>> > That is not compiling anything. But the same thing when I do in
>> > drivers/net/e1000e, it is compiling and creating e1000e.ko file.
>> >
>>
>> Check your kernel config file (which is .config) to make sure that
>> CONFIG_E1000=m
>>
>> Then you should be able to run ` make drivers/net/e1000` to build the
>> e1000 driver as a module
>>
>> > Any help on how to get e1000.ko?
>> >
>> > --Sri
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff
>>
>
>
>
> --
> --
>  Krishna Mohan B
>



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