Ganga & Sreeni wrote: > This is my first time installing a linux system so please excuse any > obvious mistakes/typos. > > I downloaded the entire 13 cd set for the testing (sarge) testing > distribution. I was able to install it successfully and most of the > stuff works. I installed the default 2.4.27-1-386 kernel. > > The problems comes when I tried to install the linux-wlan-ng package. > When installing with aptitude I get some warnings stating that there > are unresolved symbols is p80211.o, prism2_usb.o. etc. I get more > detailed errors when I do a modprobe pism2_usb.o. > > How can I get past this issue? Since I downloaded the entire > distribution shouldn't it all be working correctly? We recently suffered a kernel ABI change event triggered by a security fix to the kernel. This means that any modules built for the old kernel before this ABI change won't work with the new kernel, and any modules built for the new kernel won't work with the old one. For a while things were a mess and the 2.4.27-1-386 kernel package changed to use the new ABI and a few modules packages, including the linux-wlan-ng modules were rebuilt to use the new ABI too. Eventually we realized this was a problem and formally changed the ABI, introducing new 2.4.27-2-386 kernel packages and building new module packages for them which also have "2" in their name. You want to upgrade to those packages, because many security holes are fixed in the new kernel. Since the package name is different this upgrade may not happen automatically; you'll need to manually select the new kernel package and new modules packages. The ones with "2" in their package names will all work together properly. -- see shy jo
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