sk98lin module grrrrr!!!

OOZafle · Apprentice Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 150

ok just to let you know i've searched the forum and tried every thing i could find to get this working.

ok my problem: I'm trying to get a Marvell yukon ethernet card working using module sk98lin.
i've tried compiling in kernel as module, and built in. neither are working.
i've added the module to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 so that it would load on boot but no dice.

trying to modprobe this driver results in this error

OOZafle · Apprentice Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 150

Can someone post something letting me know how to fix the invalid module format error? I've compiled everything with the same versions of everything i haven't even done an emerge sync yet. i don't think this error could be caused by anything related to compilation. i'm damn close to just sticking a intel 100mb card in there, and giving up but i want to get this thing working without re-doing the whole install.

i'm using a 2.6.11-gentoo-r2 gentoo-dev-sources kernel. my system is a shuttle sn95g5, it uses a nforce3 ultra mainboard. I hope this information helps to generate somemore comments. thanks alot,

its 1 in the morning and i got school tomorrow iI would love to get this done before i sleep. :-D

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jzono1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 128

you should probably recompile the module...

OOZafle · Apprentice Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 150

i've recompiled the kernel like 90 times in various combinations. all resulting with a broken module. its doing the same thing with the skge module too. I'm wondering if maybe the kernel is screwing modules up or somthing....
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Anarcho · Advocate Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 2970 Location: Germany

did you do a "make modules_install" after the make process of the kernel?

Maybe you have an old version of the modul in /lib/modules/* which can't be loaded
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OOZafle · Apprentice Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 150

yeah i run make && make modules modules_install install so that i got both covered
also i tried running make modules_install by itself to double check that i had it in there and it doesn seem to to help.

Its gotta be somthing to do with how it builds because its finding the module and trying to load it...
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OOZafle · Apprentice Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 150

*bump*

no one has any clue on this?
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Anarcho · Advocate Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 2970 Location: Germany

Maybe you should stop bumping every 10 hours....

Did you check if the new modul realy overwrites the old?

Check it with ls -l /lib/modules/...

Do you install the newly build kernel, reboot and then modprobe or just make the modul without starting the new kernel?
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OOZafle · Apprentice Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 150

first i didn't bump every hour 10 hours, i was being impatiant because i wanted to get this done but anyways.

I tried every possible thing i could think of including what you suggested. but i ended up just redoing the install which was easier so now i'm on my new comp. thanks anyways for the help
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