On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:29:25PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > * kernel modules need to be built for the specific kernel they'll be run > with, or they won't work properly > * they won't work because they have the wrong memory addresses > * The error messages I got are NOT the product of wrong memory addresses, > but missing symbolic information
You are getting errors because it's trying to match the modules' symbols with the kernel that you're currently running. I don't know why it tries to do depmod at install time, perhaps Manoj can answer that one. > * Compact and regular kernels are the same, except the former has fewer > drivers They are configured differently, thus the checksums which are part of the symbols are different. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
