On Wed, 2002-10-23 13:25:49 +0100, Cathal Daly <cdaly24@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote in message <20021023122549.57302.qmail@web40603.mail.yahoo.com>:
> it. I am trying to load an e1000 driver as a module
> but I am getting unresolved symbols. The hash values
> at the end of the exported symbols do not match the
> corresponding hash values in the /proc/ksyms file in
> the running kernel. I gather that this is because
> module versioning is turned on in the kernel. I can't
> compile the driver against the kernel as I don't have
> the correct kernel sources. Is there any possible way
> to get the network driver to load into this kernel
> image without the kernel sources. I imagine the hash
> values from /proc/ksyms and the driver unresolved
> symbols will have to match but how can this be done. I
By recompiling the whole kernel, inclusive e1000. There's no way loading
the module while not risking an Oops or other bad things. Linux tries to
maintain source compatibility, but there's no binary compatibility (as
you obviously see:-)
Do a fresh compile and that'll succeed...
MfG, JBG
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