I'm having problems getting the acx100_pci.o driver to work with RedHat 9.0. I am following Craig's, aka akaBeaVis, HowTO. Everything works fine up to instruction 5 in the Installing the module and firmware section. That instruction is depmod -a. I get a response of unresolved symbols in the acx100_pci.o driver.

Any ideas or suggestions? I can't find anything wrong myself. When I installed RH9, I installed everything.(Never know what you might need.)

Wayne

Greets,
Did you compile this yourself or download a module? If so, which version? (pre4, pre3 pre2?)

I downloaded the pre4 module from the House of Craig HOWTO. I even downloaded the firmware from there. This is on a fresh install of RedHat 9. Nothing should be corrupted or missing.

Wayne

That module normally doesn't have unresolved symbols so I'm inclined to believe that something indeed is missing, perhaps wireless extensions? Do you have the file named iwconfig in your /sbin directory?

In the famous words of Homer Simpson, DOH!!!! I think that's it. I will try and see what happens. I don't think I did reload those tools after reloading RH. Thanks.

Just reloaded everything from scratch. This time I included the wireless tools, but I still get the same error:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net/acx100_pci.o


Any ideas?

one more check, do this: grep -i radio /boot/config-2.4.20-8, you should see a line returned to you with CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y, if it says 'n', which is not really likely then somehow we have different kernels.

Since the odds are high that you have 'y', let me ask you to run depmod -e and post the section for the unresolved's for the acx100_pci module

As predicted, the grep resulted in CONFIG_NET_RADIO=Y. Here are the results from the demod -e:

[root@localhost root]# depmod -e
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/net/acx100_pci.o
depmod: __kfree_skb_R229a86c8
depmod: skb_over_panic_R95644aaa
depmod: alloc_skb_R57542abc
depmod: eth_typ_trans_R84df3c10
depmod: dev_alloc_name_R51bb2fd9
depmod: netif_rx_R8d84bcda
depmod: softnet_data_R67d71c0a
[root@localhost root]#

I have this machine configured with eth1 being the DWL-520+. My on-board LAN(which isn't connected to the network) is eth0.

What next?

Wayne

I'm thinking of 2 ways to go here, either you go ahead with the rest of the howto as if these errors didn't happen or you go back to the compiling section and download and compile the module on your own machine, and see if these unresolved's are still there.

your choice, although I can tell you with certainty there were no errors from depmod on my rh9 installation, so I recommend you compile locally as there must be some kind of difference between our setups, in fact I just received email from someone else saying they too had the unresolved errors and they sent their system specs which are a good bit more modern than mine, yours may be also, be on the lookout for acpi.

That's a thought. This is a fairly modern machine: AMD Athlon 1800+, 768MB PC2100 DDR, 40GB, 120GB, 200GB HDD's, DVD Player, CD-R/RW, External DVD+R/+RW burner. ATI Radeon 9000 video, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum. Liquid cooled case.

What should I look for on the acpi? Enabled? Disabled?

I think I'll try recompiling first. I tried continuing before, but it wouldn't let me.

Wayne

I have mandrake 9.1 on my acpi machine and still I have to boot with acpi=off, so I'm not sure what rh9 is going to show you, check /proc/acpi and see if it exists. either way I would go ahead and compile this module locally.

It worked when I complied it. I am replying from my Linux box right now. It seems to be working fine. I haven't rebooted to see if it takes, but at least I'm up and running somewhat. Thanks for the assist.

Wayne