Re: modules problems

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@dit.upm.es)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:27:11 +0200 (MET DST)


> At 13:43 19.09.96 -0400, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
> >I have an ISA Western Digital 8013 ethernet card. When I compile its
> >support into the kernel, there is no problem.

> >When I try to compile it as a loadable module, and use insmod, I get
> >error messages saying symbol versions don't match and it won't load.

> >Is there anyone out there who has successfully used the module version
> >of the WD8013?
>
> Did you 'insmod 8390.o' before 'insmod wd.o'? The wd.o depends on 8390.o
>
> Franz Sirl

> email franz.sirl@lauterbach.com Fichtenstr. 27

piano:/var/spool% /sbin/lsmod
Module: #pages: Used by:
nfs 12 7 (autoclean)
wd 2 1 (autoclean)
8390 2 [wd] 0 (autoclean)
umsdos 5 1 (autoclean)
dmsdos 16 [umsdos] 1 (autoclean)
msdos 2 [dmsdos] 1 (autoclean)
vfat 3 [dmsdos] 0 (autoclean)
fat 6 [umsdos dmsdos msdos vfat] 1 (autoclean)
piano:/var/spool% uname -a
Linux piano 2.0.0 #89- Fri Jun 28 15:04:38 MET DST 1996 i486
piano:/var/spool% dmesg
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
...
loading device 'eth0'...
wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: WD80x3 at 0x280, 00 C0 DF 40 02 D5 WD8013, IRQ 9, shared memory
at 0xd0000-0xd3fff.

Peter T. Breuer
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