Re: Ethernet driver module compilation (8139too)

[Brian F. G. Bidulock]

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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