PPC vs Intel apps and Kernel Headers

[Ed McKnight]

My experioence with the linux Cisco clients for VPN is that you are 
building kernel modules on your local machine: fine; then you're linking 
with precompiled libraries provided by Cisco: not fine, because they 
provide libs only for x86.

If you can make this work somehow I'd like to hear about it; I don't see 
how unless you can get the lib source or get someone at Cisco to turn 
the crank on a linux PPC machine...

I use their clients on x86 linux and Mac OSX, but no joy on linux ppc.

--emk


Bjorn van der Meer wrote:
> 
>>Thanks, 
>> 
>>I thought I'd installed this rpm, but obviously I never did
>>successfully.
>>
>>Now I have and got a /usr/src/linux-2.4 link and a
>>/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8d directory.
>>
>>I'm trying to install a Cisco VPN client.  It allows for the creation of
>>a new driver.
>>This was the reason for needing kernel source and headers.
>>
>>I attempted to create the new driver and got lines and lines of output
>>that began with this:
>>
>>'
>>In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:23,
>>                 from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:17,
>>                 from /usr/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
>>                 from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:9,
> 
> *snip*
> 
> 
>>It goes on and on.
>>The last two lines are:
>>ld: libdriver.so: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
>>libdriver.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
>>
>>This client was targeted for "Intel x86" platforms, but I had hopes that
>>the driver configuration script could leverage the PPC assembler.
>>Does the output above suggest that this is a hopeless cause on a PPC
>>system?
>>
>>Cisco does provide a client for OS X, but I have no intention of
>>installing that on this Powerbook G3.
>>
>>John Van Hoorn
>>
>>On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 09:42, Jann Röder wrote:
>>
>>>There is a package called kernel-source-2.4.20-8d.rpm . It can be found
>>>on CD 2, or you simply do a "yum install kernel-source" . Usually you 
>>>can compile any linux application on YDL.
>>>
>>>Jann
>>
>>
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> just writing to say, "same problem here". If you find a way to compile a VPN client or if you get freeswan running
> or find any other solution, please do let me know.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Björn van der Meer
> 
> 
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