modprobe ndiswrapper --> Invalid module format

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 19.06.2005 schrieb Gezim Hoxha um 13:27:

> I'm trying to install ndiswrappers in FC4. I followed the installation
> manual in their site, but specifically here is what I did.
> 
> First I extracted kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm.
> Then I did "rpm -Uvh kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm".

*single CPU kernel-devel package*

> It said that it needs hardlink. I extracted hardlink (from cd 1 I
> think). Then I did "rpm -Uvh hardlink-1.0-1.13.i386.rpm". This
> installed, then the kernel installed. Yay!
> Next I attemted to install gcc using same method as last two packages
> but this didn't work too well (had too many dependencies), so I then
> decided to "system-config-packages" the development-tools installed
> fine. Thinking that I didn't have openssl-devel I tried to uncompress it
> from a cd (#1 I think) and then tried to install it but told me that it
> already is installed. 
> Then I downloaded ndiswrappers-1.2 from their site.
> Did:
> then I linked 
> ln
> -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686/ /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/build 

You linked the kernel includes for the single CPU / non-smp kernel into
the SMP kernel modules directory. That can't lead to something useful!

> [root at WarpPower ndiswrapper-1.2]# modprobe ndiswrapper
> FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module

*smp kernel!*

> -Gezim

Alexander


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