wrong mol-kmods after compile

[Ken Grunke]

On Saturday 25 January 2003 03:37 pm, Bertrand Dekoninck replied:
> It seems to me that you've installed and run 2.4.20 but compiled
> mol-kmods against your initial 2.4.18 sources or header files (they
> are included in the sources but some distros install them in a
> different package and at a different place). So you just did
> nothing but compile mol-kmods for 2.4.18.

What I can gather from my limited knowledge is that the new kernel I 
downloaded is a pre-compiled, pre-configured package and it just 
doesn't seem to install the kernel headers.
I'm back to 2.4.18 with MOL 0.9.65 running great, no kernel mismatch, 
and will leave it at that for now.
Thanks,

Ken

> Maybe you should look for some kernel-headers package in your
> distro or look at the /usr/src/linux (if it exists) directory.
>
> You will have to uninstall the kernel headers package of your new
> kernel (it may complain about dependancies but it won't hurt if you
> install new headers) or replace the /usr/src/linux directory by the
> sources of your 2.4.20.
>
> And then rebuild mol-kmods.
>
> Bertrand Dekoninck
>
> Le 2003.01.25 04:54, Ken Grunke a écrit :
> > I had MOL 0.9.60 running fine on a PM7500/200 with YDL 2.2, then
> > as part of my newbie learning curve "upgrade" decided to go for
> > 0.9.65 following Jamie Maynard's detailed instructions. No
> > problem, got it going without a hitch, worked great.
> > So I got bold and went for a kernel upgrade from 2.4.18-0.9a, the
> > original from the CD. I chose the PowerMac Kernel-ow-scsi-2.4
> > BenH from ppckernel.org (2.4.20-ben1).
> > Again, no problem--I followed instructions to the letter, and on
> > the first reboot had no errors or failures.
> > I knew I had to recompile the mol-kmods for the new kernel, so
> > back to Jamie's tutorial. After deleting both mol 0.9.65 and the
> > kmods, I rebuilt mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.src.rpm with the current
> > running kernel being the new BenH. Copied the new file into my
> > Downloads directory where mol-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm was, and did the
> > install, which completed with no apparent errors for mol or
> > mol-kmods. Terminal results after startmol --loadonly:
> >   No mol-0.9.65 kernel modules corresponding to the running
> >   2.4.20-ben1-noav kernel were found
> > startmol --list says
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >   Running kernel:         2.4.20-ben1-noav
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >   Available modules:
> >     2.4.18-0.9a           in /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.9a/ contains:
> > ethertap.o
> > mol.o
> > molsymglue.o
> > sheep.o
> > tun.o
> >
> > find / -name 2.4.20-ben1* gives no results.
> >
> > On a lark, I renamed /usr/lib/2.4.28-0.9a to /2.4.20-ben1-noav to
> > see what would happen. On startmol --loadonly I got:
> >
> > Mac-on-Linux 0.9.65 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Samuel Rydh
> > Config dir: /etc/mol
> > Data dir: /usr/share/mol/0.9.65
> > Loading Mac-on-Linux kernel module:
> >    /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.20-ben1-noav/mol.o
> > /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.20-ben1-noav/mol.o: unresolved
> > symbol force_sig_R6e307233
> > /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.20-ben1-noav/mol.o: unresolved
> > symbol mem_map_R75a3fcbf
> > /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.20-ben1-noav/mol.o: unresolved
> > symbol find_vma_R927f84b0
> > =================================================================
> >===
> >
> > So I guess that didn't work.
> >
> > In /usr/share/mol/0.9.65/ are:
> > /config
> > /graphics
> > /images
> > /nvram
> > /oftrees
> > /pci_roms
> > /syms
> > /vmodes
> > file:startboing
> >
> > Seems to me that the install went well, except that the newly
> > compiled modules don't exist.
> > All visible indications in the terminal told me that
> > mol-kmods-0.9.65 was sucessfully rebuilt, but where did they go?
> > And why is the old module directory under /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65?
> > I don't know what to do next--should I try a different kernel?
> >
> > Ken
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