[gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Grant]

I'm trying to set up a wireless card in my new system.  I'm using a
card of the same model that is working in an older system of mine.
The only significant difference between them is the new system is
amd64 and the old one is x86.  When I try to 'modprobe ath_pci', I get
about 60 "Unknown symbol" errors like:

wlan: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ath_rate_sample: Unknown symbol ether_sprintf
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_encap

Does this make sense to anyone or should I file a bug?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/3/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a wireless card in my new system.  I'm using a
> card of the same model that is working in an older system of mine.
> The only significant difference between them is the new system is
> amd64 and the old one is x86.  When I try to 'modprobe ath_pci', I get
> about 60 "Unknown symbol" errors like:
>
> wlan: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
> ath_rate_sample: Unknown symbol ether_sprintf
> ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_encap
>
> Does this make sense to anyone or should I file a bug?
>
> - Grant

Grant,
   Hi. What kernel are you running?

   Check that your /usr/src/linux link is pointing at the right kernel.

- Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Grant]

> > I'm trying to set up a wireless card in my new system.  I'm using a
> > card of the same model that is working in an older system of mine.
> > The only significant difference between them is the new system is
> > amd64 and the old one is x86.  When I try to 'modprobe ath_pci', I get
> > about 60 "Unknown symbol" errors like:
> >
> > wlan: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
> > ath_rate_sample: Unknown symbol ether_sprintf
> > ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_encap
> >
> > Does this make sense to anyone or should I file a bug?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> Grant,
>    Hi. What kernel are you running?
>
>    Check that your /usr/src/linux link is pointing at the right kernel.
>
> - Mark

Hi Mark,

I'm running 2.6.16-hardened-r11 and I have:

/usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.16-hardened-r11

These 64 bits are starting to get me down.  Can I run an x86 system
with this AMD Sempron64 3000+ CPU?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Tuesday 03 October 2006 21:37, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols':
> These 64 bits are starting to get me down.  Can I run an x86 system
> with this AMD Sempron64 3000+ CPU?

Yes, but you'll be throwing out 8 extra bits of addressing space and about 
1/2 dozen extra registers.  Those are not accessible to 32-bit code.

-- 
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Christopher Koeber]

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Are you having driver issues? Apologies for not getting your earlier
messages, just signed up.
Regards,
Christopher Koeber

On 10/4/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 21:37, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote
> about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols':
> > These 64 bits are starting to get me down.  Can I run an x86 system
> > with this AMD Sempron64 3000+ CPU?
>
> Yes, but you'll be throwing out 8 extra bits of addressing space and about
> 1/2 dozen extra registers.  Those are not accessible to 32-bit code.
>
> --
> "If there's one thing we've established over the years,
> it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
> clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
> -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Grant]

> Are you having driver issues? Apologies for not getting your earlier
> messages, just signed up.

Hi Christopher,

Here is my original post:

I'm trying to set up a wireless card in my new system.  I'm using a
card of the same model that is working in an older system of mine.
The only significant difference between them is the new system is
amd64 and the old one is x86.  When I try to 'modprobe ath_pci', I get
about 60 "Unknown symbol" errors like:

wlan: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ath_rate_sample: Unknown symbol ether_sprintf
ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_encap

- Grant
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[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless trouble: unknown symbols

[Grant]

> I'm trying to set up a wireless card in my new system.  I'm using a
> card of the same model that is working in an older system of mine.
> The only significant difference between them is the new system is
> amd64 and the old one is x86.  When I try to 'modprobe ath_pci', I get
> about 60 "Unknown symbol" errors like:
>
> wlan: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
> ath_rate_sample: Unknown symbol ether_sprintf
> ath_pci: Unknown symbol ieee80211_encap
>
> Does this make sense to anyone or should I file a bug?
>
> - Grant

I'm very happy to report that this was fixed by removing module
versioning support from the kernel.

- Grant
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