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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:15 pm    Post subject: cisco vpn after emerge Reply with quote

I'm not able to start my cisco vpn client after I emerged it; I'm getting the following error below, THANKS IN ADVANCE for any help!!

localhost init.d # ./vpnclient start
* Starting Cisco VPN Client ...
* Failed to load module 'cisco_ipsec' [ !! ]localhost init.d #

dmesg indicates that the driver/module is there:

Below is the output of dmesg:
cisco_ipsec: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.7.00 (0640) kernel module loaded

Below is the output of lsmod:
localhost ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
cisco_ipsec 563980 -
nvidia_agp 7068 -
3c59x 41128 -

Below is the output of ifconfig -a
localhost init.d # ifconfig -a
cipsec0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:FC:F8:01:8F
NOARP MTU:1356 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:D4:AF:B2
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:40166 (39.2 Kb) TX bytes:26886 (26.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Below is the output of modprobe -l

/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/video/nvidia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/lib/libcrc32c.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/phidgetservo.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/cytherm.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/usb/input/touchkitusb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sx4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/scsi/ipr.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/net/s2io.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/net/dummy.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r13/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko


HELP, thanks, usaims...
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:36 pm    Post subject: Re: cisco vpn after emerge Reply with quote

usaims wrote:
cisco_ipsec: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.


Interesting. The kernel has a sense of humor :D :wink:

It's kind of naive, but sometimes this solves problems with malfunctioning modules. Did you try a simple

Code:
rmmod cisco_ipsec && modprobe cisco_ipsec

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