Kernel Build

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 21:03:49 UTC 2006


You're likely hitting one of two problems:
0) The default, original FC5 kernel does not allow non-GPL'd symbols.
I don't think ndiswrapper is GPL's but I could be wrong
1) There's a bug in FC5 where the kernel and kernel-devel RPMs that
get installed end up being mixed incorrectly, where you get i586 of
the kernel and i686 of the kernel-devel (of vice versa).  You need to
manually install the matching RPM.

On 8/17/06, Joe Byers <joe-byers at utulsa.edu> wrote:
> I could use some help.  I have an old HP Pavillion 6300 with and AMD K6
> 366 processor.  My fedora version is 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 with uname - as i586
>
> My first problem was trying to get my Dell 1180 Wireless USB adapter to
> work.  Compiling ndiswrapper kept returning vermagic error and version
> errors.  Dmesg said module struct mismatch.  Trying to modprobe with -f
> locked the computer.
>
>  From this problem I tried to compile my kernel with the K6 processor
> option and 4K buffer option off.  Because, the src files from fedora had
> the 686 option selected.  When I reboot I get multiple insmod errors for
> various XXX.ko modules, it can't find dev/misc, and others which causes
> a kernel panic.  It does find the LVM partitions but can't seem to
> access them.
>
> I can not list all the output because the machine has no internet
> connection and I have to switch to my other computers to search the
> internet and post messages.  So please forgive for not posting the
> various error dumps.
>
> Thank you
> Joe
>
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