for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 | ||
for Debian 3.1 | 'sarge' | |
for Suse 9.2 |
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for Scientific Linux 4.4 | ||
for Debian 4.0 | 'etch' | |
To install the driver and the load script to the system, you have to get super user privileges and execute the driver install script by typing,
cd AcqirisLinux
You can check that the driver is loaded properly with lsmod or dmesg. The
If you intend to use an Averager, an Analyzer, or a
cp /mnt/CDRom/Firmware/*.bit Firmware/
2.3.1. Kernel Mode Driver Compilation
For some special kernels, for example SMP, the kernel mode driver will have to be recompiled on the target system. All files needed to compile a new kernel mode driver are in AcqirisLinux/linuxdriverpci for Kernel 2.4 or in AcqirisLinux/linux2.6driverpci for Kernel 2.6
The makefile can be used for compilation under a standard compatible distribution. To compile the driver, the kernel header files need to be installed. Furthermore, depending on the Linux distribution, the kernel source files may need to be installed. The makefile will try to guess where they are located. If it fails, see instructions inside the makefile itself to specify manually where these kernel header files are located.
To compile a new kernel under
cd linuxdriverpci
make clean to remove all *.o files in AcqirisLinux/linuxdriverpci.
make to generate a new kernel mode driver acqrsPCI.o and also copy it to the directory AcqirisLinux/lib/modules where the install script (drv_install) can access it.
drv_install rem to remove the previous installed kernel mode driver.
drv_install add to install the new driver.
To compile a new kernel under
cd linux2.6driverpci
make clean all to generate a new kernel mode driver acqrsPCI.ko from scratch.
make install to copy the kernel module where it should reside.
Note that this version of the loadable kernel module had been tested on Linux kernel versions up to 2.6.18. However, starting with kernel 2.6.17, a few kernel functions relating to the device classes are no longer available to proprietary modules. Thus automatic creation of the /dev/acqrsPCI node has to be done manually in the /etc/rc.local file.
For Debian users, in order to compile the kernel module on a system, a few packages that match the current kernel- image must be installed. For instance, on a Debian 3.1 sarge system 686 the required packages are:
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