RE: Hugo's expertise....

[A_Finney wfi-inc com (Aaron Christopher Finney)]

On Saturday, July 26, 1997 6:31 PM, Tom Burke [SMTP:tomii siu edu] wrote:
> Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
> >
> > A few days back I asked you about compiling my kernel/modulest. Well, this
> > is
> > what I did:
> >
> > Moved /lib/modules/2.0.30 to 2.0.30.old
> > Did a make xconfig
> > did make dep
> > did make clean
> > did make modules
> > did make modules_install
> > did depmod -a
> >
> > and aarrghghh! I got a line for each module that says ****unresolved 
symbols
> > in
> > module xxxxx. I also get this when I boot, as well as the same modprobe
> > errors,
> > not being able to locate the net modules. I couldn't find any references to
> > them in the file you specified (actually, it was blank).
> > What am I doing wrong??? I reinstalled my kernel source/headers/module
> > sources
> > and got the same thing. I've been using BSD and Solaris in school for the
> > past
> > couple years and Linux is such a great mix of bsd and sysvinit that I
> > thought
> > it'd be great to use to wet my feet in kernel customization/compilation. 
And
> > on
> > my laptop! But I am getting a bit frustrated. A little more help would be
> > much
> > appreciated....
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aaron Finney
> >
> >
>
> You might try doing a "make mrproper before you do anything else (even
> make config)

So far, no good. I did the make mrproper before I did the make config. After 
the above sequence, with the make mrproper inserted first, I still get one 
depmod "unresolved symbols" message, for /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/bsd_comp.o. 
What is this module? I don't have anything in either of the networking sections 
of make config set to compile as a module. The only other modules I have are a 
couple of the file systems and an Iomega scsi adapter (this is a very minimal 
system on my laptop). And I'm still getting modprobe errors on bootup....

Thanks for the help,

Aaron