compact flash card/ compiling modules

[Joerg Winkelmann <jwinkel@example.com>]

Hi,

I have trouble reading flash cards coming from a digital camera.
The Camera is Nikon Coolpix 800, but probably that is not the point.
When I enter the PCMCIA adapter with a 8-MB CompactFlash memory
card into the PCMCIA slot of my Laptop with SuSe Linux 2.0.33 on it,
it apparently realizes that there is a memory card, but fails to
load the appropriate driver, which seems to be broken.
At least this is my guess from the lines in /var/log/messages,
which follow:

Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: initializing socket 2
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: socket 2: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/ide_cs.o'
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: + /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/ide_cs.o: unresolved symbol ide_unregister
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: + /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/ide_cs.o: unresolved symbol ide_register
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: insmod exited with status 1
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: executing: 'modprobe ide_cs'
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: + /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/ide_cs.o: unresolved symbol ide_unregister
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: + /lib/modules/2.0.33/pcmcia/ide_cs.o: unresolved symbol ide_register
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: + ds: Device or resource busy
Dec 29 15:24:57 jwnote cardmgr[76]: modprobe exited with status 1
Dec 29 15:24:58 jwnote cardmgr[76]: get dev info on socket 2 failed: Try again

I then tried to upgrade the kernel modules, downloaded modules-2.1.13
from ftp.kernel.org, but this failed completely: It just does not compile,
producing a flood of error messages including the following lines:

In file included from insmod.h:29,
                 from insmod.c:71:

insmod.c: In function `main':
insmod.c:1008: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
insmod.c:1009: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
  ...
insmod.c:1030: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
insmod.c:1037: increment of pointer to unknown structure
insmod.c:1037: arithmetic on pointer to an incomplete type
insmod.c:1044: structure has no member named `module'
insmod.c:1077: warning: passing arg 5 of `init_module' from incompatible pointer type
insmod.c:369: warning: `symp' might be used uninitialized in this function
insmod.c: In function `findsym':
insmod.c:1207: `SYM_MAX_NAME' undeclared (first use this function)
insmod.c:1207: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
insmod.c:1207: for each function it appears in.)
insmod.c: At top level:
insmod.c:1317: `MOD_MAX_NAME' undeclared here (not in a function)
insmod.c: In function `ksyms':
insmod.c:1588: structure has no member named `addr'
insmod.c:1590: warning: int format, long int arg (arg 3)
make[1]: *** [insmod.o] Error 1
make[1]: g++: Command not found
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 127
kerneld.c:2: linux/kerneld.h: No such file or directory
kerneld.c:76: `KERNELD_CANCEL_RELEASE_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:76: initializer element for `clear_text[0].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:77: `KERNELD_SYSTEM' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:77: initializer element for `clear_text[1].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:78: `KERNELD_REQUEST_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:78: initializer element for `clear_text[2].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:79: `KERNELD_DELAYED_RELEASE_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:79: initializer element for `clear_text[3].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:80: `KERNELD_RELEASE_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:80: initializer element for `clear_text[4].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:81: `KERNELD_REQUEST_ROUTE' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:81: initializer element for `clear_text[5].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:82: `KERNELD_BLANKER' undeclared here (not in a function)
kerneld.c:82: initializer element for `clear_text[6].message' is not constant
kerneld.c:182: field `msg' has incomplete type
kerneld.c:279: warning: missing braces around initializer for `child_action._u'
kerneld.c:286: warning: missing braces around initializer for `timer_action._u'
kerneld.c:292: warning: missing braces around initializer for `hup_action._u'
kerneld.c: In function `check_pending_load':
kerneld.c:344: `KERNELD_REQUEST_MODULE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:344: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kerneld.c:344: for each function it appears in.)
kerneld.c: In function `spawn_it':
kerneld.c:371: `KERNELD_CANCEL_RELEASE_MODULE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:376: `KERNELD_DELAYED_RELEASE_MODULE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:386: `KERNELD_SYSTEM' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:415: `KERNELD_REQUEST_MODULE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:437: `KERNELD_RELEASE_MODULE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:455: `KERNELD_REQUEST_ROUTE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c:485: `KERNELD_BLANKER' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c: In function `do_timer':
kerneld.c:781: `KERNELD_REQUEST_MODULE' undeclared (first use this function)
kerneld.c: In function `main':
kerneld.c:804: `IPC_KERNELD' undeclared (first use this function)
make[1]: *** [kerneld.o] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2

I do not understand anything (no experience in C programming),
and right now have absolutely no idea what I should try next.

Anybody able to give me useful hints?

Thanks in advance

Joerg
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