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. 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
