[lwlan-user] Errors running modprobe

[Daniel Liu]

Anyone gonna help me with my problem?


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Daniel Liu wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > On 07/14/03 14:11, Daniel Liu wrote:
> >
> > >>>How exactly are you building wlan-ng (commands)?  unresolved symbol errors
> > >>>are almost always a symptom of modules that were built for a different kernel.
> > >
> > > This is the steps I took to build wlan-ng:
> > > make config (I only installed prism2_usb and set the linux source and
> > > modules to the correct paths.)
> >
> > And what are the correct paths?
>
> The path I had for the linux source was /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9 and the
> path I had for the modules was /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9.
> >
> > > make all
> > > make install
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>Did you un-comment the "custom" tag off of EXTRAVERSION in
> > >>/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-18.9/Makefile ?
> > >>
> > >>-Tim
> > >
> > > Nope what does uncommenting that line do?
> >
> > Allow you to build the modules against kernels that are vendor supplied,
> > such as yours.
>
> the EXTRAVERSION was uncommented in Makefile.
>
> A little more information about my linux setup is that I have two kernels
> installed, the older one being 2.4.20-8.  I installed the newer kernel
> using an rpm and I got the source code for the new kernel and ran make
> oldconfig on it. Than I tried to install wlan-ng.  Any other ideas about
> what might be wrong?
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