modprobe ndiswrapper --> Invalid module format
Steven Stern
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Tue Jun 21 13:14:00 UTC 2005
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 19.06.2005 schrieb Gezim Hoxha um 13:27:
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>>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".
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> *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
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>
> 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
>
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> *smp kernel!*
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>
>>-Gezim
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> Alexander
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I've stripped out all kernel packages except SMP. When I compile, I get
a working ndiswrapper now. But as soon as I type
iwconfig wlan0 essid mynetworkid
a huge stack trace happens and the system locks up, requiring a power cycle.
Do you think this is a 4K stack vs. 16K stack issue?
--
Steve
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