Partial MODVERSIONS?

Jun Sun jsun
Thu Aug 28 18:07:14 PDT 2003


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:14:45PM -0400, Jeff Gold wrote:
> Jeff Gold wrote:
> >I'm attempting to get hostap-0.0.4 working with RedHat 9 using the 
> >2.4.20-20.9 kernel (which at the moment is the latest offered through 
> >up2date).  [...]
> >
> >Unfortunately while the hostap driver builds and installs with no 
> >trouble, modprobe reports unresolved symbols when attempting to load it. 
> 
> Removing the kernel source and reinstalling it using RPM corrected the 
> problem.  Something sequence of events seems to corrupt the RedHat 
> provided kernel source in some way, though I've not fully investigated 
> the issue.
>

This is exactly the same problem as I decribed the other day,
under subject of "modversion issue on redhat 9".

There is a hackish workaround proposed there.  

(Can't believe I missed this email.  I knew I shouldn't be the
first person to encounter this issue.)

Jun




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