Re: Problems compiling (any) modules [solved]

[Christopher Nelson <chris@cavein.org>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:25:56PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> However, I need the madwifi module to have network access, so I
> installed linux-headers-2.6.16-1-k7 (yes, I do have a k7, so it's not
> that).  I ran a 'make-kpkg debian' in the
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1-k7 directory, and got no errors, so I
> proceeded to run 'make-kpkg modules_image'.  This spat out the error:
> 
> The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
>      "2.6.16-1-k7" 
> does not match current version:
>      "2.6.16" 
> Please correct this.
> make: *** [modules_image] Error 2
> 
> and died.  I tried deleting the madwifi directory and trying with
> alsa-source, to the same end, so I don't think it's something in the
> module.

I got it to work by using '--append-to-version -1-k' -- I didn't take a
careful enough reading of the man pages.

-- 
Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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