[hcflinux] hcfpciosspec.o will taint the kernel

[Justin Young]

Hello there,

This is a new one. I just upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0, after having 
much success in easilly installing my HCF modem under 8.2 and using it with 
no problem, this time installation isnt so easy.

Everything 'pretends' to install, but actually doesnt, I discovered that the 
/dev/ttySHC0 doesnt exist. So curious about this I checked the FAQ and saw 
that this may be common on devfs systems like Mandrake, and I should run 
'modprobe hcfpciserial'. Doing so revealed something quite interesting, 
apparently hcfpciosspec.o will taint the kernel!!
The error I got was:

Warning: loading 
/usr/lib/hcfpci/modules/binaries/i586/Mandrake/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/hcfpciosspec.o 
will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Conexant 
Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted 
modules

I checked it out, and it said that the drivers may not be signed correctly 
to be added to a precompiled binary such as Mandrake Kernel. I tried 
compiling my own with Kernel version 2.5.9 but thats more hassle than 
anything.

Any one else had the problem, or got ideas?

     - Justin

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