Re: Forcing i686, ignore Athlon for Install of RHES 3.0

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Bryla, Bob J. wrote:
> OK, a bit more detail... since I'm only slightly dangerous with 'make' -- and would just as soon walk over hot coals most days --
>
> When I do an 'insmod' (either auto at startup or manually in a terminal window) the module in question
> DOES NOT load, because several symbols are undefined, and don't match symbols in the kernel, and does not load. Mostly networking symbols.
>
> The developer of the .o says that it's because of Athlon recognition in the kernel... and says I should build an i686 kernel.
>
> SOOOO... maybe it IS as easy as telling the boot loader that I'm an i686? Then the right kernel symbols will be available when the .o tries to load??

You need to install a 686 kernel via "rpm -ivh" and add it to the boot
loader's menu.  Then you can boot the 686 kernel at boot time.

Whether that will help your problem, I don't know.  The maintainer
should fix his code--it absolutely should build on any Linux kernel--the
differences between Athlon and 686 are easy to detect and program
around.
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