Compilation problems

[Net Llama!]

On 07/20/03 18:34, ionmich at mail.gr wrote:

> I run Caldera e2.4. The kernel does not provide USB support for
> my scanner. I downloaded kernel 2.2.18 which does support USB,
> compiled it, installed it, then rebooted. Everything appeared to
> run normally but I could not connect to the scanner. I checked
> the boot-up errors and found,"......./usb-uhci.o:couldn't find
> the kernel version the module was compiled for." Just to make
> sure I deleted the entire linux2.2.18 source directory, untarred
> the source files again, re-configured, re-compiled, and
> re-installed. I checked that the file date on usb-uhci.o had
> changed and re-booted. I got the same error message. 
> 
> Can someone explain why, and how to get around the problem?

USB support in 2.2.x kernels is not all that great.  Use 2.4.21.

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