Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[chiron]

Hi,

I am running slacko 5.3.1 on my media box (VIA C3 Nehemiah (without i686 bug)), and now I want to add LIRC to it. Downloaded via the package manager from slackware (lirc 0.9.0), no luck. Got Kernel sources (2.6.37.6, Slackware 13.37) from slackware and compiled LIRC package (0.9.0) myself, still no luck. Problem is, I cant load the kernel modules, modprobe lirc_serial and modprobe lirc_dev give me the same error that states wrong module format. So, the modules are there, but there appears to be a mismatch between modules and Kernel. Or am I missing the obvious here?

Anyhow, does anybody have the kernel modules for LIRC (or even the whole LIRC package) compiled for slacko 5.3.1? And has it working?

Thanks in advance!

And no, I am not willing to change to another puppy or even make an update. Everything besides LIRC finally runs perfect (including Bluetooth & Remuco).

[Karl Godt]

Puppy slacko uses woof for the many scripts, a kernel compiled by 01micko and most of the additional apps and programs like abiword from the slackware repository ..

I dont run Slacko 5x series much, nor am i an expert for slackware .

It sounds a little strange that Slacko runs the same kernel version like the official slackware distribution .

The Puppy Slacko kernel sources .sfs can be found here :
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/

They should normally be in here :
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.3.1/

Usual Puppy mismatches

[chiron]

Thanks for pointing me to the right place at nluug I actually looked there first, but obviously in the wrong place. I'll give it a try later on.

[Hesse James]

Hi Chiron
Installation of LIRC is normally not that easy to simply install a precompiled package or to compile the source code and that's it. For my installation (on old spup) I had to read a lot of hints in Forums which were focused on my IMON LCD. To find out which IMON I have was difficult enough. There are a lot of which are not alway compatible to each other. So the subsequent configuration of the LIRC was more than Plug'n Play.
Good luck.
Christian

[chiron]

OK, so I downloaded the source from nluug and compiled Lirc with it .Still the same problem.

When modprobing lirc_dev or lirc_serial, I still get Invalid Module Format. The modules are where they belong, I did a depmod -a, so I am sure that it is an incompatibility between the modules and the kernel. Is it possible that it's an issue with architecture, since the kernel states i686, and the modules state 80386? But I suppose they should be compatible, right?!

So right now, I wish I had it working so far as to encounter problems with the hardware and configuration. So if there are precompiled lirc kernel modules out there for the 2.6.37.6 kernel, I would like to try them out.

I know that things are not always straightforward, I got Bluetooth and Remuco running on the machine