On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:20:01PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/17/05, Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From your debugging output, I see that modprobe is trying to load the > > module from the 2.4.27-2 directories. I haven't seen a problem like it > > before, but you might want to see if you have a > > /lib/modules/2.4.27-12-686 dir. Another thing to check is if the driver > > is packaged seperatly. > > That's the directory that's there. The package is > kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686, and the version is 2.4.27-12. The driver > is included in that package (as reported by dpkg -S), and "apt-cache > search orinoco" doesn't turn up anything else. The only other package > that contains orinoco.o is pcmcia-modules, but there's only a 686-smp > version of that, and I'm not running the -smp kernel. I tried > modprobing the other modules that share a directory with orinoco.o, > and they all load without problems (excluding the orinoco_*.o modules, > with which I didn't bother), so it's not something that got screwed up > for wireless in general. > > > Not knowing anything about the driver, and not having one to play with, > > my only suggestion is to downgrade your kernel to the working version. > > The last working version isn't available, unless I'm missing > something. The only earlier 2.4 kernel I can see in sid is 2.4.25, > which is a hell of a downgrade. When I tried to boot into it after > the 2.4.27 upgrade broke the driver, I got a kernel panic, so I'm not > too comfortable with that option.
http://snapshot.debian.net/ is the place to look for old debs after they get replaced. You could also see if the deb is still in /var/cache/apt/archive/ (that path might be a bit wrong). Pete (run out of ideas) > > I don't know if the driver works properly in 2.6, but I'd really > prefer not to do a major kernel upgrade, potentially breaking a lot of > my current configuration, just to fix something that the kernel > maintainers should be addressing. > > > Sorry I can't be more help. > > Hey, more help than anyone else so far -- many thanks for the effort. > The list of bugreports for the 2.4.27 kernel doesn't exactly give me > great hopes for a speedy resolution, unfortunately. > > Since the kernel-source package was upgraded to -12 (instead of being > mismatched with kernel-image), I've been trying to build the modules > myself, with limited success. I'm hoping that make-kpkg with > /usr/share/kernel-package/config as my .config file will do the trick > -- it's running at the moment. > > -- > Michael A. Marsh > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh > http://mamarsh.blogspot.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
