I have googled this and found a thousand answers, but none of them seem to answer my problem.

I have been using the distro kernels (Mandriva), but needed to install a current kernel directly from kernel.org.

When doing a modprobe on some modules I get this error.
This error usually means that one thing is using a different version, but I can't find where that is happening.

I have a lot of kernels installed, but while the distro kernels don't give me that error, any kernel I install from source from Kernel.org, I get the error on a few modules.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

Did you compile the source , or is it possible to DL already-compiled kernels from kernel.org ?

Somewhere in the configuration it is possible to append something like '-MyKernelNo1' to the kernel version and make install should copy the modules into /lib/modules/`uname -r` , with uname -r something like 2.6.39.5-MyKernelNo1 .

It is also possible to choose modversion in the kernel .config , which claims to be able to use drivers from other compilations , but until now it never worked for me .

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