FW: insmod tulip kernel mismatch

["drew cohan" <debian@drewcohan.com>]

>I upgraded from a 2.2.x kernel to 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
>There are 2 Ethernet interfaces; eth0 is working.
>The 2nd is an SMC 1255TX PCI card; I downloaded the driver from
>the SMC site.
>Installed kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4; copied the include files
>to /usr/src/link/include.
>Ran make; copied tulip.o to
>/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/net.
>Then cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/net.
>Insmod tulip returns:
>kernel-module version mismatch
>tulip.o was compiled for kernel 2.4.18
>while this kernel is version 2.4.18-bf2.4

You could try insmod -f to force the module to load but YMMV.

>From man insmod:

      -f     Attempt  load the module even if the version of the
              running kernel and the version of  the  kernel  for
              which the module was compiled do not match.

Best,

Drew
debian@drewcohan.com