[Gloucs] Wireless driver problem

[Glyn Davies]

Matthew Booth wrote:
> Glyn Davies wrote:
>> 2.6.24-19 borked. Same firmware problem as -17 plus the orinoco_usb 
>> driver compiles okay but modprobe gives:
>>
>> root at westbury:~# modprobe -v orinoco_usb
>> insmod 
>> /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_usb.ko 
>>
>> FATAL: Error inserting orinoco_usb 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_usb.ko): 
>> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>
>> dmesg gives:
>>
>> [ 1661.254611] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol __orinoco_ev_rx
>> [ 1661.254807] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol __orinoco_ev_info
>> [ 1661.255109] orinoco_usb: disagrees about version of symbol 
>> alloc_orinocodev
>> [ 1661.255112] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol alloc_orinocodev
>>
>> Can someone that knows something about the kernel and/or compiling 
>> give me a pointer (probably a delicious pun there).
>
> This looks like the module was compiled for the wrong kernel. Some 
> tools, if you don't specify a kernel version explicitly, use uname to 
> work out which kernel to target. Is it possible you rebuild the module 
> before rebooting into the new kernel? Maybe it built for the running 
> kernel but installed in the new kernel's module directory.
>
> Just a guess. Try deleting it and building it again. Also manually 
> check that /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build points to a valid kernel 
> header tree for the running kernel.
>
> Matt
I don't think that is the issue. Done a make clean, make  and make 
install with the laptop running 2.6.24-19. All the compilation appears 
to go without hitch.

Any other ideas?

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Best Regards
Glyn Davies