Re: Problems compiling kernel 2.4.22

["Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões" <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:58, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:28, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote:
> > > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> > >  modules symbols broken references
> > >
> > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> > >  when I make 'make modules_install' I get:
> > >  depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/ipip.o
> > >  depmod:         ip_send_check
> > >  depmod:         register_netdevice
> > >  ..
> > >
> > > and so on, and not only for these modules: vfat, smbfs, msdos, etc
> > >
> > > By the way, when I tried to ssh to paste more information, I got in the
> > > console:
> 
> [SNIPPED...]
> 
> BYW. Did you try booting the new system, THEN, executing `depmod -a` ?
ok. In this case, it does not give any broken reference.
But, then, why does make modules_install run depmod if we know (almost
certain) that it will give broken references?

But, I need some more help. I can't load any ACPI modules, getting a No
such device as answer. I don't have also a /proc/acpi directory.

Thanks for any help.
Alberto 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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