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From: "Chava Leviatan" <chavale@actcom.net.il>
To: <bidulock@openss7.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ethernet driver module compilation  (8139too)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:34:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <027e01c68313$e8e11440$c400a8c0@Chavalaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060529035344.A25913@openss7.org

Hi Brian ,

Thanks alot ! This exactly the line I was missing at my makefile !
Now it works ...


Chava
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>
To: "Chava Leviatan" <chavale@actcom.net.il>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Ethernet driver module compilation (8139too)


> Chava,
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2006, Chava Leviatan wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> I did reboot the machine, and saw that during boot time there is a call 
>> to
>> depmod.
>> I did depmod -ae as you've requested, and here are the results:
>>   [root@NettGain root]# depmod -ae >chav.dat
>> depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net/makefile.8139 is not an 
>> ELF
>> file
>> depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net/makefile.eepro is not an
>> ELF file
>> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
>> /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o
>> depmod:         __netdev_watchdog_up
>> depmod:         flush_signals
> ...
> ...
>> depmod:         mii_ethtool_gset
> ...
> ...
>>
>> Please note that if I manually insmod mii , then the insmod 8139too 
>> passes
>> w/o problems .
>>
>
> I don't see how it could with all those depmod errors.  Try doing
> this:
>
> grep uregister_netdev /proc/ksyms
>
> If you get something like this:
>
>  c0194ef0 unregister_netdev_Rc45f34ea
>  c01d5270 unregister_netdevice_notifier_Rfe769456
>  c01d6ca0 unregister_netdevice_R52c1d940
>
> then your kernel has versioned symbols.
>
> In which case, you are probably missing
>
> -DMODVERSIONS -include linux/modversions.h
>
> from your compile statement.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --brian
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-29 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-29  9:05 Ethernet driver module compilation (8139too) Chava Leviatan
2006-05-29  8:13 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-29 10:27   ` Chava Leviatan
2006-05-29  9:53     ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-29 11:34       ` Chava Leviatan [this message]
2006-05-29 12:24         ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-29 12:34           ` test Suresh G

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