Newest kernel Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) killed ndiswrapper

[Chris Brown]

On 26/05/07, Arch Willingham <arch at tuparks.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I use ndiswrapper to get to my Linksys wireless card. It
> has always worked with each interation of  FC6 and FC7. I currently use it
> with FC7 test 4.
>
> Every time a new kernal comes out, I run a batch file (oops...script file)
> to re-run teh ndiswapper stuff. Last night, after I updated to Fedora (
> 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7), I tried to update ndiswrapper andit bombed out with
> the message below. Note that of teh output below, there were only two new
> errors: "WARNING: "__spin_lock_init" [/downloads/ndiswrapper-1.44/driver/ndiswrapper.ko]
> undefined!" and "FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.21-
> 1.3194.fc7/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown
> parameter (see dmesg)"...teh other errors are typicsl for each build (at
> least on my machine). Once I dropped back to Fedora (2.6.21-1.3189.fc7),
> it works fine.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Arch


Hi Arch,

This used to happen for me when I had a load of whitespace after my
ndiswrapper lines in modprobe.conf although I thought a fix had gone in to
resolve it.

Try it anyway.

Cheers
Chris



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