Re: Problem initailizing pca200e module

[ud3@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Uwe Dannowski)]

imahadev@eecs.wsu.edu (Indu Mahadevan - EECS) wrote:
> /var/log/messages had these three lines
> 
> Mar  1 06:54:21 nif-c2 insmod: versioned kernel: yes versioned module: no
> Mar  1 06:54:21 nif-c2 insmod: ELF kernel ELF module
> Mar  1 06:54:21 nif-c2 insmod: Initialization of pca200e failed
> 
> I tried insmod with a verbose output insmod -v and the output is
> ...
> versioned kernel: yes
> versioned module: no
> ELF kernel
> ELF module
> Initialization of pca200e failed
> 
> Does anything look suspicious?

Yes, it does. Your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, so all your
modules have to be, too. Compile the pca200e module with -DCONFIG_MODVERSIONS.

> I tried this too but it doesnt work. My ethernet card is at fcc0-fcdf
> and works fine. Could this be a new bios version and hence the address
> looks suspicious?

Hmm, fcc0-fcdf is your ethernet cardīs IO space. The PCA-200E has 2MB of shared
memory which has to be *behind/above* real memory to avoid conflicts.

Uwe

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