madwifi unresolved symbols

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Sun Mar 7 23:12:17 UTC 2004


Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 18:35:
> Do not use insmod! Use modprobe to give the process the change to
> preload other needed kernel modules using the dependency list in
> modules.dep. This will prevent such failures if all is proper set up.

Doesn't matter in this case. It's not a problem of dependent modules but
unresolved symbols - unfortunately.

> Remind that you need to rebuild modules.dep after adding custom kernel
> modules to the modules tree, use "depmod -ae -F /boot/System.map". 

make install does all these things by itself.

> If
> already that call produces unresolved symbol error messages something
> went wrong with building the custom module(s).

indeed, but what is going wrong?

Axel Thimm gave me a hint to his repository where rpms are available.
Nevertheless I would like to know what is wrong. the same procedure did
work with previous versions.

Thanks for your advice.

Peter









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