[elrepo] kmod-rr174x for el7

[Leon Fauster]

Hi Alan,

Am 22.12.2014 um 18:20 schrieb Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>:
> I have spent some time attempting to build the most current version of
> the rr174x code on RHEL7 without success. :(

thanks for spending your time!


> I started by putting the kmod package together only to find that it
> failed to build. I then went back to the Adaptec site and ensured that
> I had to latest source tarball. Extracting the contents and testing a
> fundamental "make" showed that the code in its current format is not
> compatible with a 3.x.y Linux kernel.
> 
> So, unfortunately, a EL7 version of the rr174x kmod package is
> currently a "non-starter".


You wrote "Adaptec" - this is confusing me. I see that the driver
is downloadable here:

  http://highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/rr1700_download.htm
  http://highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/rr1740/Linux/rr174x-linux-src-v2.4-091009-1434.tar.gz

Is this what you have used?

Leon