Re: Newest kernel Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) killed ndiswrapper

[Jay Cliburn <jacliburn bellsouth net>]

Arch Willingham wrote:

> Does any of this help?
[...]
> May 28 12:40:35 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __spin_lock_init
> May 28 12:40:35 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) 

[jcliburn osprey boot]$ grep CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK config-2.6.21-1.*.fc7
config-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
config-2.6.21-1.3189.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y

The 3194 kernel was built without CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK set (see the above grep 
command output).

CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is required by the exporter of __spin_lock_init.

Since ndiswrapper requires __spin_lock_init, it won't run under 3194 because the 
kernel was built without providing it.

Jay