Re: Problems building from tarballs solved

[Phil H <philtickle200@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> Looks like I have to ruin your day...
 
Oh well :-( I'd much rather get it 100% right than do
it wrong - that's why I posted!
Thanks for setting me straight :-)

Clearly I need to do more reading, but the websites
I've been looking at never seem to spell all this out
in explicit newbie-proof steps. You get a piece of the
picture in one place and another piece somewhere else.

I've started working through
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/basekerncompat.html.
 
I note this actually tells you to force insertion of a
module even though it was compiled for a different
kernel version (!) (something Jari will probably
disapprove of!) (chpt 6):

" ..insmod has a -f option that "forces" insmod to
ignore the kernel version mismatch and insert the
module anyway. Because it is so unusual for there to
be a significant difference between any two kernel
versions, I recommend you always use -f."



		
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