Newest kernel Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) killed ndiswrapper
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Mon May 28 17:41:54 UTC 2007
Arch Willingham wrote:
> Does any of this help?
[...]
> May 28 12:40:35 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __spin_lock_init
> May 28 12:40:35 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
[jcliburn at osprey boot]$ grep CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK config-2.6.21-1.*.fc7
config-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
config-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
The 3194 kernel was built without CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK set (see the above grep
command output).
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is required by the exporter of __spin_lock_init.
Since ndiswrapper requires __spin_lock_init, it won't run under 3194 because the
kernel was built without providing it.
Jay
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