FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module slusb.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'usb_unlink_urb'

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear all,

I have a smartlink based winmodem on my computer. 
This is what I use to connect to the internet from my
home machine.  I am a little bit concerned because the
slmodem-2.9.11-20080417 code does not compile under
kernel-2.6.25.  When I try to compile I see the
following: 

for
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/amrlibs.o
 FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module slusb.ko uses
GPL-only symbol
 'usb_unlink_urb'

Is there a quick fix for this or an alternative that
will make the compilation succeed so that I and other
users with these kind of modems can continue using
Fedora?

Thank you in Advance,

Antonio 

[olivares at localhost slmodem-2.9.11-20080417]$ make
 KERNEL_VER=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
 make -C modem all
 make[1]: Entering directory

`/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/modem'
 rebuild profile...
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_main.o -c modem_main.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_cmdline.o -c modem_cmdline.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o modem.o
-c modem.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_datafile.o -c
 modem_datafile.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_at.o -c modem_at.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_timer.o -c modem_timer.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_pack.o -c modem_pack.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_ec.o -c modem_ec.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_comp.o -c modem_comp.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_param.o -c modem_param.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_debug.o -c modem_debug.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
homolog_data.o -c homolog_data.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
dp_sinus.o -c dp_sinus.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
dp_dummy.o -c dp_dummy.c
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
sysdep_common.o -c sysdep_common.c
 gcc -o slmodemd modem_main.o modem_cmdline.o modem.o
modem_datafile.o
 modem_at.o modem_timer.o modem_pack.o modem_ec.o
modem_comp.o
 modem_param.o modem_debug.o homolog_data.o dp_sinus.o
dp_dummy.o
 dsplibs.o sysdep_common.o
 gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM   -o
modem_test.o -c modem_test.c
 gcc -o modem_test modem_test.o modem_cmdline.o
modem.o
 modem_datafile.o modem_at.o modem_timer.o
modem_pack.o modem_ec.o
 modem_comp.o modem_param.o modem_debug.o
homolog_data.o dp_sinus.o
 dp_dummy.o dsplibs.o sysdep_common.o
 make[1]: Leaving directory

`/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/modem'
 make -C drivers
KERNEL_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.25-1.fc9.i686/build
 make[1]: Entering directory

`/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers'
 make modules -C /lib/modules/2.6.25-1.fc9.i686/build

SUBDIRS=/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers
 make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-1.fc9.i686'
  CC [M] 
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/amrmo_init.o
  CC [M] 
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/sysdep_amr.o
  CC [M] 
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/st7554.o
  LD [M] 
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/slamr.o
  LD [M] 
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/slusb.o
   Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 2 modules
 WARNING: could not find

/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/.amrlibs.o.cmd
 for
/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers/amrlibs.o
 FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module slusb.ko uses
GPL-only symbol
 'usb_unlink_urb'
 make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
 make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
 make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-1.fc9.i686'
 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory

`/home/olivares/Downloads/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417/drivers'
 make: *** [drivers] Error 2
 
 
 I downloaded latest slmodem-2.9.11-20080417.tar.gz
 

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/slmodem-2.9.11-20080417.tar.gz
 
 No problems yet, only when Fedora 9 comes out, as of
right now all is ok.


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