Was hoping to work on the wireless module… Unfortunately all I did this weekend was to revert back to the old ABI toolchain since I ran into issues with the EABI one. Anyways, I have the toolchain fixed now. I hope not to touch it for a while. Hopefully this week would be a good one. All I want for now is to connect to the web from toobo… Let’s wait and see. Gotto hit the bed. Long week ahead! CHEERS!

More than a blog, this is just a reminder post to me and to all of you folks who have run into tons of make issues while porting a linux driver module from the 2.4 kernel to the 2.6.

The makefiles used to build say a character device driver in 2.4 will not work with 2.6 even after editing the tool chain and the setting up the correct header path in the makefile. Remember to follow the steps mentioned in LDD3 (Linux Device Drivers 3) Chapter 2: building and running modules – Compiling Modules section. Else, you would run into issues and waste a day just like I did. Read more »