tlug: ftape modules in the wrong place

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

Hello Tluggers. 

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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