[lwlan-user] Errors running modprobe

[Net Llama!]

build your own kernel rather than using a vendor kernel.

On 07/17/03 17:16, Daniel Liu wrote:

> 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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