Requesting a howto a kmod / akmod

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 September 2010 09:19:32 Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I was just wondering if anyone knows of where I can find descent docs on
>> > howto build an kmod / akmod.
>> >
>> > Realtek provides drivers for the wifi 8129se but I need to rebuild the
>> > driver everytime my kernel is updated.
>> >
>> > Any advise on how to build a kmod / akmod be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> There is a page in wiki that I once used to build my first package
>> (rt2870-kmod) for RPMFusion:
>> http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Kmods2
>>
>> It should be pretty informative. Also, check the existing kmod
>> packages for examples.
>>
>> Orcan
>
>
> Trying to create the kmods. I ran into a couple of problems
>
> 1) I had to modify the line from (--repo %{repo}):
>
>   kmodtool  --target %{_target_cpu}  --repo %{repo} --kmodname %{name} %{?buildforkernels:--%{buildforkernels}} %{?kernels:--for-kernels "%{?kernels}"} 2>/dev/null
>
> to:
>
>   kmodtool  --target %{_target_cpu}  --repo rpmfusion --kmodname %{name} %{?buildforkernels:--%{buildforkernels}} %{?kernels:--for-kernels "%{?kernels}"} 2>/dev/null
>
>
> 2) It would seem that the driver was compiled, but then it would not "make install" If I were to do this manually, of course make install works
>
>
> + rm -rf /home/eli/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/rlt8129se-kmod-2.6.0017.0525.2010-1.fc13.1.x86_64
> + for kernel_version in 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64___/usr/src/kernels/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64
> + make install DESTDIR=/home/eli/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/rlt8129se-kmod-2.6.0017.0525.2010-1.fc13.1.x86_64 KMODPATH=/lib/modules//2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64//extra/rlt8129se/
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PYAMQs (%install)
>
>
> Thanks for any insight
>

The guidelines are like recipes. If you don't have the right
ingredient you need to come up with a replacement. Not all Makefiles
are written the same. You may need to tweak your lines a little until
things work. It is hard to say what you need to do without looking at
your specfile. Do you have an SRPM uploaded somewhere?

Orcan