Newest kernel Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) killed ndiswrapper

Arch Willingham arch at tuparks.com
Mon May 28 17:53:27 UTC 2007


Oh crud....does that mean I have to get into all that compiling my own version of the kernel stuff I have read about? Is it normal for them to compile the kernel with that switch turned off?

Thanks!

Arch


-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Cliburn [mailto:jacliburn at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Mon 5/28/2007 1:41 PM
To: Arch Willingham
Cc: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: Re: Newest kernel Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) killed ndiswrapper
 
Arch Willingham wrote:

> Does any of this help?
[...]
> May 28 12:40:35 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __spin_lock_init
> May 28 12:40:35 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) 

[jcliburn at osprey boot]$ grep CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK config-2.6.21-1.*.fc7
config-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
config-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y

The 3194 kernel was built without CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK set (see the above grep 
command output).

CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is required by the exporter of __spin_lock_init.

Since ndiswrapper requires __spin_lock_init, it won't run under 3194 because the 
kernel was built without providing it.

Jay






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