Re: Unresolved symbol issues while installing linux-wlan-ng
SOLVED!
Joey I took your advice and downloaded the xxxx-2-386 packages and it
all works now!!
Thanks much,
Sreenivas
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:25:40 -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 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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