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

[Antonio Olivares]

--- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
wrote:

> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > 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 
> > 
>
/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'
> 
> You should take that back to the slmodem folk. It's
> the sort of thing 
> you can (given the skills) fix for yourself, but you
> are forbidden (by 
> licence conflicts) to distribute the results.
>
Yes, the file mentioned there
slmodem-2.9.11-20080417.tar.gz was posted at LinModems
Resorce page, smartlink section.  I do not have a
problem yet since Fedora 9 has not been released, I
just tested the code to see if it compiled or not so
that when Fedora 9 is released, I can connect from my
home machine.  Other users which have a smartlink
based modem will be left out, if things continue not
to compile.

Thanks,

Antonio 
> 
> >  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
> >  
> >  
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> John
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