Am 23.05.2005 um 13:23 schrieb Mohammad Halawah: > Context: I want to install the WLAN driver for realtek 8180 using the driver > provided by the manufacturer. > > Problem: When I insert the module using > insmode 8180_26_private.ko > > I get in the shell the following: > insmod: error inserting './8180_26_private.ko': -1 Invalid module format > > >From dmesg I see: > 8180_26_private: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module > > I have tried with debian kernel 2.6.10-1-686 also with compiled kernel > 2.6.11.8
A kernel module will usually only work for exactly the kernel version it was compiled for. You can find out the kernel version, your module was compiled for, with "modinfo 8180_26_private.ko". AFAIK Realtek does not provide any source code with their drivers, only a pre-compiled module for one specific kernel. This means, even if it that driver would work for you now, it would stop working after an update of the kernel. Such a driver is hardly worth more than no driver at all. There is a project [1], which is trying to develop an opensource driver for that card, although I do not know how well it is working at the moment. Another option is ndiswrapper, which is a wrapper around the windows driver, to make it work on Linux. Regards, Dennis [1] http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ -- Send personal mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Off-list mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not reach me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
