Re: cannot load ipv4.o

[Igmar Palsenberg <palsenberg tebenet nl>]

> 
> I hope someone here can help...
> 
> I am making an initial ramdisk.  I am using kernel version 2.2.12.  I
> have compiled all the appropriate modules (network card, sound, ipv4,
> etc).  I have gotten as far as the machine loading the sound and network
> drivers, and then determining its settings using bootpc.  However, calls
> to gethostbyaddr are failing, ping is reporting that icmp is an unknown
> protocol, and I cannot use tftp.
> 
> I had a look at the modules and found that ipv4.o was not loaded.  I
> tried to manually load the module using insmod ipv4.o, but it reported:
> 
> "ipv4.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for"
> 
> I then tried insmod -f ipv4.o and received the same error message.
> 
> Can anyone please help me resolve this problem?

Install the modules. Do a make install_modules in the kernel source dir,
after you did a make modules.

I suggest you make the ipv4 protocol a build in one. There is no reason
not to do so, and it gives a lot of trouble.



> --
> David
> 



		Igmar