[driverloader] Fwd: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event

Steve Rodgers steve.rodgers at ts-a.com
Fri Feb 11 19:56:09 EST 2005


thanks for the quick reply.
doh!

I had turned that on in the kernel, but forgot to update the boot image :(

works now - ta!

On Friday 11 Feb 2005 19:41, Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:
Ls> Hi,
Ls> 
Ls> please read this entry in our DriverLoader FAQ located at:
Ls> 
Ls> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/faq.php
Ls> 
Ls> ---
Ls> I have a custom kernel and my WLAN interface doesn't work.
Ls> 
Ls> Make sure that your kernel is compiled with the support for 'wireless 
Ls> extensions'. You must enable 'Wireless LAN' under 'Network device 
Ls> support'. The options in the configuration file are 'CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y' 
Ls> and 'CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y'.
Ls> ---
Ls> 
Ls> it is likely the source of the problem.
Ls> 
Ls> Regards,
Ls> 
Ls> 
Ls> Jonathan
Ls> Technical specialist / Linuxant
Ls> www.linuxant.com
Ls> support at linuxant.com
Ls> 
Ls> 
Ls> Steve Rodgers wrote:
Ls> > hi - I've been using driverloader for about 6 months - this is only the second problem I've had.
Ls> > 
Ls> > I've moved onto a gentoo system - same hardware (dell d600)- using kernel 2.6.10 -
Ls> > 
Ls> > the driverloader module compiles just fine but doesn't get inserted: from dmesg:
Ls> > 
Ls> > driverloader: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
Ls> > 
Ls> > any idea what's going on?
Ls> > I saw this post which deals with this issue, but my kernel config doesn't set symbol versioning:
Ls> > http://www.linuxant.com/pipermail/driverloader/2004q4/001645.html
Ls> > 
Ls> > from my kernel config:
Ls> > #
Ls> > # Loadable module support
Ls> > #
Ls> > CONFIG_MODULES=y
Ls> > CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
Ls> > # CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
Ls> > CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
Ls> > # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
Ls> > # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set
Ls> > CONFIG_KMOD=y
Ls> > 
Ls> > 
Ls> > regards
Ls> > Steve Rodgers
Ls> > 
Ls> > 
Ls> > 
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