One method for upgrading the megaraid driver on Debian

[Guillaume Devil]

hi there ! thank you very much for making it work ! Could you be more precise on the way you made this ? A sort of tutorial maybe ? You will help lots of people, see theses posts http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5008033

Thanks in advance
See you

> -----Original Message-----
> Greetings.  New subscriber here.  Apologies for any badly formatted
> emails.  I'm stuck with using outlook.
> I just upgraded the megaraid_sas driver last week on our 2950 running
> Etch, with the only change from a stock install being a kernel change to
> 2.6.22-4-amd64 from http://backports.org/.

> What I ended up doing was pulling the RH3 archive for the 8480E card
> (not that it seems to really matter as the tarball inside the archive
> looks to have the patches for all the supported versions of Linux in it)
> from LSI's site, uncompressing that file and then uncompressing the
> megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.13.tgz file.
> 
> I added these lines to the Makefile (per
http://www.captain.at/programming/kernel-2.6):

> KDIR    := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
> PWD    := $(shell pwd)
 > default:
>  $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules

> Ran make and received a clean compile for megaraid_sas.ko.  Backed up
> the old megaraid_sas module, added the new module, rebuilt the initrd
> image, rebooted cleanly.

> Not a single problem so far (of course, we are not seriously stressing
> the server /yet/), and OMSA no longer complains about the driver being
> too old.



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