[lug] rio500 support kernel 2.4.1

[charles at lunarmedia.net]

my last post was quite lengthy and ended up as completely unnecessary. the
advice that slipped past me from this email was that 'prompt for
experimental' was not enabled. once it was, the rio500 option appeared.

thanks! -cjm


On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> Charles,
>
> The USB Diamond Rio500 support (EXPERIMENTAL) is under USB Support as
> the very last option.  Thus, you need to have USB turned on and the
> 'Prompt for Experemental' option turned on.  I assume this is the Rio
> you want.  If there is a not usb verion, I have never seen the driver
> for that.
>
> HTH,
>
> Tim
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:49:35PM -0600, charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:
> > why is it that a tarball of 2.4.1 from kernel.org doesnt show an option of
> > rio500 support as a module when i run 'make menuconfig'?
> >
> > in /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/, rio500.c and rio500_usb.c both exist. and
> > in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ there is a rio directory which holds a
> > myriad of files.
> >
> > reading over the rio500 drivers page on sourceforge which is also in the
> > Documentation directory expanded from the 2.4.1 tar file, it asks you to
> > add modular support for rio500 within the kernel.
> >
> > i don't see how this is possible. i've updated my modutils to the most
> > recent and as i had said before i am using 2.4.1 as the kernel. what am i
> > missing?
> >
> > thanks! -charles
> >
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