[etherlab-users] errors with make modules

[Florian Pose]

Hello,

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:39:54PM -0700, dclark at mmto.org wrote:
> I'm having difficulties getting Ethercat master software built on a Fedora
> 12 system when 'make modules' is invoked. The error message is:
> 
>   CC [M]  /usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.o
> /usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.c: In function
> ‘ec_eoe_init’:
> /usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.c:141: error: ‘struct
> net_device’ has no member named ‘open’
> /usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.c:142: error: ‘struct
> net_device’ has no member named ‘stop’
> /usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.c:143: error: ‘struct
> net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
> /usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.c:144: error: ‘struct
> net_device’ has no member named ‘get_stats’
> make[3]: *** [/usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master/ethernet.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [/usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824/master] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/local/src/ethercat-devel-r1824] Error 2
> 
> The system is running Linux 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686, and I've tried
> this with both the -r1770 version and -r1824 version from
> http://etherlab.org/download/ethercat/ with the same fault. Config was run
> with:
> $ ./configure --enable-8139too=no --enable-generic=yes

The development version is maintained on SourceForge (see master
website), please use the latest version from there. At the time of
r1824, there was obviously no support for kernels newer than 2.6.29,
because the net_device callback function names changed.

> So is there something I'm missing needed to get the generic ethercat
> master to build? Is there a newer version I should be using instead (I
> looked on Mercurial but it wasn't clear which .bz2 is correct)?

The latest version is ok.

-- 
Best regards,
Florian Pose

http://etherlab.org