Installing openswan on Sarge Kernel 2.6.7

neptunus · 09-19-2004, 08:41 AM

Hello,

I just tried to install openswan via the apt-get command.

Unfortunately I get the following error-messages when the installation-process finishes

Quote:

ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPsec 2.1.3...
ipsec_setup: insmod: can't read 'ipsec': No such file or directory
ipsec_setup: FATAL: Module af_key not found.
ipsec_setup: calcgoo: warning: 2.6 kernel with kallsyms not supported yet
ipsec_setup: FATAL: Module ipsec not found.
ipsec_setup: kernel appears to lack KLIPS
invoke-rc.d: initscript ipsec, action "start" failed.

I don't know what to do to solve this problem.

What can I do to get the missing module 'af_key'?

Neptunus

zen_guerrilla · 09-25-2004, 03:53 AM

Code:

$ apt-cache show openswan | tail -n 8                 
 Please note that you will need a recent kernel (>=2.4.24 or 2.6.x)
 for using this package. The standard Debian kernel includes both IPSEC
 and crypto support, patching the kernel is no longer necessary!
 .
 If you want to use the KLIPS IPSec code for kernel modules instead of the
 native ones, you will need to install either openswan-modules-source or
 kernel-patch-openswan and build the respective modules for your kernel.

I guess this answers your question. If you choose the second way (build your own kernel/modules)
search this forum (& google) for 'make-kpkg' 'module-assistant' etc for further info.