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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:16:31AM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > I had cped the new serial.c into place 
> 
> That isn't enough.  There are some other files 
> that need to be spliced into the source directories.  
> I suggest you execute install-in-kernel (which 
> does everything for you) and try again.

Deleted kernel tree and unpacked the tarball again, downloaded
the serial driver and ran ./install-in-kernel (successfully) and
tried to build the new kernel.

Failed again. Same error messages. 

Steven said:

> Message-id: <20061212061107.6b51f789.3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org>

> The unmodified kernel source compiled fine for me. It barfed
> only after I spliced in the special serial driver you want.
> Perhaps it is designed for 2.4 (and later) kernels?

Looks like it.

<shrug>

I'll pursue the USB modem solution suggested by Sindi.

Lee