Spiffed's Computing Notebook

To build the driver without pulling your hair out, you'll need the velocityget 1.23 sources from Via Arena and my patch.

1. Download everything

     wget http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/velocityget.tgz
     wget https://spiffie.org/computing/archives/velocityget_1.23_for_2.6.22.patch
   

2. Extract the sources:

     tar xzf velocityget.tgz
     cd 1.23
   

3. Apply the patch:

     cat ../velocityget_1.23_for_2.6.22.patch |patch -p1
   

4. Build everything and install:

     make
     sudo make install
   

At this point, you'll need to load the module. This could entail any of the following:

• No modules are loaded: just load velocityget (modprobe velocityget)
• The module supplied with the kernel is loaded: you'll need to unload the existing module and load velocityget (modprobe -r via_velocity;modprobe velocityget). You will also need to find a way to ensure the correct module loads during startup.
• The viavelocity driver was compiled into the kernel: you need to rebuild the kernel either without the viavelocity driver, or with via_velocity built as a module.