Hi y'all

I have an enterasys 802.11 DS card in a RH7.3 system. I am attempting to compile .13 orinoco_cs but keep coming up with unresolved symbol errors

What am I doing wrong and how do I get around it? I have read that there are problems with redhat in this regard and tried the workarounds to no avail..

Any thoughts?

Do you have the kernel source and kernel source headers installed?

Cheers,

Finegan

hi finegan

well I got the source in usr/src not sure about the headers..
not sure what the headers are..

I have done other compiles etc no probs, eg winmodem stuff
does that help?

Yeah... that does, can you paste in some of the errors into here?

make > errors.txt

should make a handy text document to work off of.

Cheers,

Finegan

errg..
dunno what i've done but can't seem to make anymore..
says nothing to do.
if i do insmod orinoco_cs i get this however:
[root@gilbert wireless]# insmod orinoco_cs
Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol hermes_struct_init
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol orinoco_shutdown
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol orinoco_reset
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol orinoco_proc_dev_cleanup
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol alloc_orinocodev
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol orinoco_interrupt
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o: unresolved symbol orinoco_proc_dev_init

oh.. found another spot where I seem to have put orinoco-0.13
here is the result from errors.txt:
cc -MD -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -DMODVERSIONS -include /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/build/include/linux/modversions.h -c hermes.c

just wondering if with my card problems may be caused by this incompatibility between test & ibss ad-hoc methods, whether I have managed in my fiddling to set one of the cards to true ad-hoc, if so how on earth did i do it!

once again thanks for your help, It must be nice to be young enough that you can learn all of this stuff and have it actually stick in your mind! not that I'm that old..

You can't insmod a pcmcia module, cardmgr has to bind it. What's the card model? "/sbin/cardctl ident" will tell you.

Is that command not found? I don't think you have a compiler installed, unless you installed RH with the "everything" or "developer" option, they don't install a compiler for you... that's a little annoying. Using whatever GUI package manager you have on board should be able to sort it out rather quickly, and that'll handle the 2-3 dependencies you may run accross... for that matter, you're going to need the kernel source installed, or at least the source headers, which I think are on their by default... so that should be fine.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hmmm....
summat odd goin on here, my posts are vanishing..
I installed RH with developer option, so to speak, have had no problems with compiling a lot of other stuff, ie modem drivers for winmodem, parted for partitioning and a heap of other stuff. have had problems installing other software tho, a dvd/video player and more, all coming up with unresolved symbols. when i installed os I made sure I installed gcc+ and other development/compiling utilities.
I did read somewhere that there is a bug in RH with regards to compiling, and am in the process of installing debian to see if I have less problems with that.

cheers,

Ben