Fixed Knoppix 6.2 headers

[mecho]

Anyone who uses 6.2 version of Knoppix may have noticed that compiling is a trouble. I spent some time to rebuild the headers and now compiling works just fine. At least I tested it with madwifi and tp-smapi source-packages.
If anyone needs it - let me know and I will upload deb package somewhere:
Package name:
linux-headers-2.6.31.6_2.6.31.6-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

[linuxoid]

I had a similar problem with 2.6.32.6. It resulted in undefined common types like u32, u64, phys_addr_t, etc. The version of headers that I've used was linux-headers-2.6.32.6. Can you please provide details on what needs to be done to fix them. My solution was to define missing types manually, but I didn't like it at all.

Thanks!

[kl522]

Did you use the debian package linux-header-2.6.32.6 or you use knoppix package ? There will be some difference between debian package verses knoppix (custom) package - because knoppix is patched with aufs2. Unless you are compiling file system drivers, otherwise it should not matter. What are you trying to compile ?

If you have exhausted everything, you can always go to www.kernel.org to download the kernel source. You can't use the kernel you compiled from www.kernel.org, but the header files there should be good - as long as you are not compiling file system drivers.

[linuxoid]

I used: apt-get install linux-header-`uname -r`. The package was: hwclock 2.18. What would be the right Knoppix-specific version for 2.6.32.6? When I checked the version with dpkg, it said:

ii linux-headers-2.6.32.6 2.6.32.6-10.00.Custom

Does it mean that I have the correct Knoppix version? Probably the problem is in hwclock and not in headers.

[kl522]

Likely is the hwclock source.

hwclock is part of util-linux, the latest version in the unstable repository is 2.17.2-3.1. You are trying to compile something even later than that !