Sivasankar Chander wrote:
Perhaps Olitec supplied a binary-only module, e2.o, for someI have source code of that driver.. now able to compile as .ko module
specific 2.4.x kernel. In that case, there's no easy way to make
it work on 2.6.
OTOH, if there's a GPLed driver, it can be ported to 2.6 with someSiva, I did not buy it in my own.. touchtel installed it for my Windows
effort - the main benefit of FLOSS.
In general, you should completely avoid buying hardware for which
there is no GPLed driver, to avoid situations like this. Try
writing to Olitec and complaining, if there's no open-source driver.
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