From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262459AbUEFPNa (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262547AbUEFPNa (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:13:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:43484 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262459AbUEFPNU (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2004 11:13:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:12:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Antonio Dolcetta Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 Message-Id: <20040506081258.569d696e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040506165304.6376fed1@simbad> References: <20040505013135.7689e38d.akpm@osdl.org> <20040506165304.6376fed1@simbad> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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 Antonio Dolcetta wrote: > > something has broken the b44 module, > modprobe b44 fails with: > FATAL: Error inserting b44 (/lib/modules/2.6.6-rc3-mm2/kernel/drivers/net/b44.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > > dmesg contains the line: > b44: Unknown symbol generic_mii_ioctl Please config that your .config does not set CONFIG_MII? 25-akpm/drivers/net/Kconfig | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/net/Kconfig~b44-needs-mii drivers/net/Kconfig --- 25/drivers/net/Kconfig~b44-needs-mii 2004-05-06 08:12:07.298682840 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-05-06 08:12:15.841384152 -0700 @@ -1309,6 +1309,7 @@ config APRICOT config B44 tristate "Broadcom 4400 ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL + select MII help If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from _