hi,
i'm trying to install debian sarge on my toshiba portege R200, equipped with a marvell yukon gigabit ethernet controller. By default the NIC is not recognized from the setup program. Now I compiled on a previous installed sarge (throw full CDs) on the same laptop the correct sk98lin.o module, for kernel 2.4.27, which is working perfectly. To be able to use in the future the netinst I'm trying to load manually the module from the shell (alt+F2) when installation claims it can't find any NIC. doing insmod or modprobe sk98lin (with or without full path /lib/modu.../drivers/net/sk98lin/) I get about 40 unresolved symbol (pci_set_master, mem_map, printk, add_timer, irq_stat, pci_save_state ...etc).
how is it possible to solve this? other modules missing?
trying the same procedure with kernel 2.6 (after compiling the .ko version of the module on another machine with 2.6) makes the driver load perfectly and the installation complete via net.
I would like to be able to do the same with 2.4

david

You will need to do the same as in the 2.6 kernel and compile the module again with the correct sources for the 2.4 kernel.

I guess you had the sources for your previous 2.4 kernel in order to build the module..
You could re-install the previous 2.4 kernel if you still have the sources..

To get the module to autoload at boot, place it's name in /etc/modules

I did exactly the same that with the 2.6.
the driver is compiled and installed by a shell script, which requires the kernel headers only, which where instlaeed (correct version, same as kernel). the kernel compiled for (and working with) is the same used in the installation (checked by uname -r on the shell, during install process. 2.4.27-32-386).
so sound strange to me.
could it be that instead of the 2.6 version, the 2.4 requires manual installation of other modules before it? (modules which are missing, since modprobe gives same result as insmod)

david