[luau] Fedora depmod -a Segmentation Fault

[Eric Hattemer]

I spent a long time trying to get ndiswrapper working on my friend's 
laptop.  It required a 2.6.1-1.43 kernel rpm.  I can't quite remember 
what else we had to do, but I remember on that particular machine it was 
a lot of work.  It may be simple if you use the 2.6.1-1.43.  But it took 
us a while to figure out that it doesn't work well in 2.4.22.  You need 
to compile the ndiswrapper package (gmake install).  We got a lot of 
errors and hardlocks in 2.4.  That one is no longer readily available in 
rpm form, though.  the 2.6.3 and .4 weren't so good either.  So the main 
point I'm making is that we tried several different kernels and got one 
to work.  So you may need to compile a new kernel or try the 2.6.4 or 
2.6.3 from 
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1.90/i386/RPMS.updates/ 
.  And when I say mirrors.usc.edu I really mean the equiv directory on 
the local mirror, ie. download.fedora.us. 

-Eric Hattemer

Kevin English wrote:

>I'm running Fedora with kernel version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl. I'm trying to
>install the newest verison of ndiswrapper (0.6) so I can get my linksys
>WMP54G card working again. For some reason when i do a depmod -a, I get a
>Segmentation Fault.I posted to the Fedora-list too but since so many local
>folks use fedora, I thought I'd give this a shot too.
> Here's what i get when i do 'depmod -av'
>
>
>xftw_readdir /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/unsupported/net/wanrouter
>user function /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/unsupported/net/wanrouter
>user function
>/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/unsupported/net/wanrouter/wanrouter.o
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/2.4 lstat on /lib/modules/2.4 failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/updates lstat on /lib/modules/updates failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/kernel lstat on /lib/modules/kernel failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/fs lstat on /lib/modules/fs failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/net lstat on /lib/modules/net failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/scsi lstat on /lib/modules/scsi failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/block lstat on /lib/modules/block failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/cdrom lstat on /lib/modules/cdrom failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/ipv4 lstat on /lib/modules/ipv4 failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/ipv6 lstat on /lib/modules/ipv6 failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/sound lstat on /lib/modules/sound failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/fc4 lstat on /lib/modules/fc4 failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/video lstat on /lib/modules/video failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/misc lstat on /lib/modules/misc failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/pcmcia lstat on /lib/modules/pcmcia failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/atm lstat on /lib/modules/atm failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/usb lstat on /lib/modules/usb failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/ide lstat on /lib/modules/ide failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/ieee1394 lstat on /lib/modules/ieee1394 failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/mtd lstat on /lib/modules/mtd failed
>xftw starting at /lib/modules/unsupported lstat on
>/lib/modules/unsupported failed
>Segmentation fault
>-------------
>
>uname -a
>Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST
>2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
>Kevin W. English
>Software Developer, X5Software
>kevin at x5dev.com
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