Re: Ethernet driver module compilation (8139too)

[Chava Leviatan]

Hi Brian ,

Thanks alot ! This exactly the line I was missing at my makefile !
Now it works ...


Chava
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chava Leviatan" <chavale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Ethernet driver module compilation (8139too)


> Chava,
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2006, Chava Leviatan wrote:
>
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > I did reboot the machine, and saw that during boot time there is a call 
> > to
> > depmod.
> > I did depmod -ae as you've requested, and here are the results:
> >   [root@NettGain root]# depmod -ae >chav.dat
> > depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net/makefile.8139 is not an 
> > ELF
> > file
> > depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net/makefile.eepro is not an
> > ELF file
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o
> > depmod:         __netdev_watchdog_up
> > depmod:         flush_signals
> ...
> ...
> > depmod:         mii_ethtool_gset
> ...
> ...
> > Please note that if I manually insmod mii , then the insmod 8139too 
> > passes
> > w/o problems .
>
> I don't see how it could with all those depmod errors.  Try doing
> this:
>
> grep uregister_netdev /proc/ksyms
>
> If you get something like this:
>
>  c0194ef0 unregister_netdev_Rc45f34ea
>  c01d5270 unregister_netdevice_notifier_Rfe769456
>  c01d6ca0 unregister_netdevice_R52c1d940
>
> then your kernel has versioned symbols.
>
> In which case, you are probably missing
>
> -DMODVERSIONS -include linux/modversions.h
>
> from your compile statement.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --brian
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