Help with Kohjinsha SC3 wireless vt6656

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All,
I have just succesfully installed openSUSE 11.1 on my Kohjinsha SC3. For background, it is a umpc with a poulsbo GMA500 graphics, menlow chipset SCHUS15W, Atom processor, ASIX 88772A Network card, and vt6656 usb wireless. Long story, but tried a number of Ubuntu versions (8.04.1, 8.04.2, 8.10, 9.04a3), and couldn’t get installs to boot. In any event, openSUSE 11.1 went right on, I think it had something to do with the pata_sch module. In any event, I was able to compile the ASIX driver and it is working. Now I need to compile the vt6656 wlan driver.

I did the prep, from here:
Unable to set Atheros Wireless card with MadWifi in openSUSE 11.0 | SUSE & openSUSE

e.g. installed:
Kernel Source package (kernel-source)
Kernel Syms package (kernel-syms)
GNU C Compiler (gcc)
Make utility (make)
with Yast

I downloaded the source from here vt6656 v1.19:
VIA Arena - Display Drivers

This is supposed to compile on >2.6.26+ kernels. The linux.txt says that on Suse you need to:

b:For SuSE OpenSuSE 10.3 ,if it will pop ¡°main_usb.o error¡± message,
log in os as root and entry the folder:/lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default,
then do by suggested approach:
1. /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default /rm -rf build ;
2. /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-31-default /ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.5-31 ./build
3. /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.5-31/make menuconfig
Exit;
Save;
4. /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.5-31/make)

Not sure why you have to “make” the kernel…
I did change the link from -obj to -default. But, the compile pukes at the same place. Anyone able to successfully compile this on 11.1?

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ok, got it to compile. Looks like you do have to do a “make” in /usr/src/linux for it to work…The kernel compile took forever though.

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Hi!

I also bought the Kohjinsha SC3 and had exactly the same issues. Wanted to try Debian. I tried several kernels, but booting always stopped while loading the kernel image, before loading initrd.

Anyway… switched to SuSE and it worked fine.

I used an external USB D-Link Network adapter for the installation and did not get the internal network-card working yet.

You said that you could already compile the driver?
Did you compile it into the kernel or did you compile it as module?

Did you download the sources from the ASIX webpage?
They only have sources up to 2.6.26 kernel, but SuSE 11.1 has 2.6.27 Kernel.

I downloaded the sources and tried to compile, but always get an error from make: no rule to make “module”.

any hints?

I’m grateful for anything.

BR,

phil

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OK… I already found my problem…

wrong kernel sources installed.

sry.