Linux Help for a Linux Newbie.

Hi I'm trying to get *EDIT SUSE*linux set up on the free 10gb partition of my Raid0. After several frustating failed installs I found out that I should grab the driver*doh* for my raid to work, So i headed on over to Via and grabbed my driver, only to discover I may be over my head. The instructions of the driver are this:

This wouldnt be that big of a problem if I weren't on windows I can usually figure things out. My main problem is I don't know how to compile a driver. My programming experience rovolves around TI-Basic and Java
What tools do I need to get this driver compiled on Windows?

A little late, but better late than never.

You should not need to compile the driver your kernel should already have a via SATA module.

you should already have sata_via.ko in /lib/modules

# the SATA drivers are normally in

/lib/modules/$your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/

on my system they are here:

/lib/modules/2.6.12-1xxxx/kernel/drivers/scsi

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ls -al sata*
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 12416 Jul 15 2005 sata_nv.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14268 Jul 15 2005 sata_promise.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 12464 Jul 15 2005 sata_qstor.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 12060 Jul 15 2005 sata_sil.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 9260 Jul 15 2005 sata_sis.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 9900 Jul 15 2005 sata_svw.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 16816 Jul 15 2005 sata_sx4.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 9456 Jul 15 2005 sata_uli.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10976 Jul 15 2005 sata_via.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10748 Jul 15 2005 sata_vsc.ko

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try:

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modprobe sata_via

dmesg

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Good Luck