Re: DWL 650+ wireless card with SuSE 8.1

--- George Silberstern <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 10:53 PM 6/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Anybody has any success with above card? I tried
> with this binary
> >                 |
> >/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/pcmcia/acx100sta.o:
> kernel-module version mismatch
> >         /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/pcmcia/acx100sta.o
> was compiled for kernel
> >version 2.4.19-16mdkcustom        while this kernel
> is version 2.4.19-4GB.
> >                 |
> >I followed his advice and used the closest match
> and renamed, but:((((
> >Any suggestion how to resolve this kernel mismatch?
> 
> The short story: You need to either compile the
> module, recompile the 
> kernel, or bop the author of the module over the
> head for sloppiness.
> 
> The long story (hoping it makes sense):
> Every Linux distro names the kernel in a specific
> way (which you can find 
> out by running 'uname -a' and checking the kernel
> version 
> portion).  Somewhere in the kernel config file,
> there is a parameter, the 
> name of which escapes me, which can be set so that
> all the binaries 
> resulting from the compile are "married" to that
> specific kernel (can 
> someone else please identify the flag in question,
> please?). 

CONFIG_MODVERSIONS

Oisin Feeley

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