Requesting a howto a kmod / akmod

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Thursday 23 September 2010 08:53:51 Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 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

Thanks for looking at this. The url to the src.rpm is:

http://orbsky.homelinux.org/packages/rlt8129se-
kmod-2.6.0017.0525.2010-1.fc13.1.src.rpm

Eli

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