From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263742AbUAHFSM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:18:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263760AbUAHFSM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:18:12 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:54169 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263742AbUAHFSJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:18:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:15:21 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "Silk Thadeum" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c may be outdated : kernel loading problem Message-Id: <20040107211521.467dd421.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 05:41:17 +0100 "Silk Thadeum" wrote: | Hello, | | I have been working on Linux 2.4.20 for a couple of months and use a Davicom | Semiconductor Ethernet network card driver known as dmfe.c for module dmfe. | | I had no problem since here, but on Linux 2.6.0-i386-stable kernel is | refusing to load the module : | | -- | $ insmod dmfe.o | insmod: error inserting 'dmfe.o': -1 Invalid module format | $ lspci | grep Davicom | 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller : Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 | Mbit (rev 31) | -- In Linux 2.6.x, you load modules with names like 'dmfe.ko'. And be sure to use module-init-tools, not modutils. The module-init-tools location is listed in the Documentation/Changes file. | | I tried to load the module by various ways : with old (for 2.4.20) and new | (from 2.6.0 stable) compiled driver, but that didn't work. I quickly looked | at the source code which seems quite old. I can't actually help you in | having a deeper workaround because I don't yet have sufficient technical | skills for that. Are you building the module for 2.6.x in the norm(al) way or using some homebrew commands or script? | I'm working on a Debian Sarge testing prerelease. | | Have fun in debug ;p of course ;) -- ~Randy MOTD: Always include version info.