From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: installed kernel source using the "add/remove applications" control panel (already had all the developer tools installed). make xconfig select kernel options (the one option i'm trying to build is the ntfs.o read-only kernal module, but i went through and customized the kernel) save and exit kernel configurator make dep && clean bzImage modules modules_install. i am compiling my ethernet driver as a module. 3com ethernet 3c590/3c595/3c90x/3cx980. compile stops with the following errors (on the make modules part) this text box will not contain all the errors, so i have posted them to my website: http://www.robotholocaust.com/kernel_errors.txt these are the last few lines from make -C net modules dummy.c: In function `dummy_init': dummy.c:58: invalid suffix on integer constant dummy.c:58: called object is not a function dummy.c: In function `dummy_cleanup_module': dummy.c:117: invalid suffix on integer constant dummy.c:117: called object is not a function make[2]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/drivers/net' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_net] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/drivers' make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run make xconfig 2. select loadable modules 3. run make dep && clean bzImage modules modules_install (or just make modules) Actual Results: I got the errors described above Expected Results: The kernel modules should have compiled correctly Additional info: see the full output of the error text at http://www.robotholocaust.com/kernel_errors.txt
you forgot make mrproper ;( also http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html has prebuild modules ;)