Hiya all I have a laptop with one of the dreaded $$$modems. I managed to find a driver for it last night, unfortunately compiled for kernel 2.2.12. When I try and install this driver I get the following:- kernel module mis-match esscom.o was complied for kernel version 2.2.12-20 while this kernel is 2.2.18 Is there any way to force this module to load, or is it unlikely to work anyway. If I find someone clever enough can this driver be 'reverse engineered' and recompiled for 2.2.18. Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, however I would like to know one way or the other. I do have a regular modem I carry around with the laptop, but its obviously better to try and get the internal one to work. Thank you and kind regards -- Mark Annandale SuSE 7.1 / 2.2.18 Kmail 1.1.19
hi mark, i had the same thing on my laptop (toshiba satellite 2140cds). you can load the module with: insmod -f esscom.o it will still complain, but the module will be loaded. wether it will work, i don't know. in my case, i had kernel 2.2.14 and a module (ltmodem.o) compiled for kernel 2.2.12. the modem worked fine most of the time. sometimes, kppp would hang the machine when it disconnected. that happened mostly in egypt, however, where the phone system is rather bad. here in holland, it only happened once, and i dial up at least two or three times a day, so... HTH, joost On Sun, 04 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Hiya all
I have a laptop with one of the dreaded $$$modems. I managed to find a driver for it last night, unfortunately compiled for kernel 2.2.12. When I try and install this driver I get the following:-
kernel module mis-match esscom.o was complied for kernel version 2.2.12-20 while this kernel is 2.2.18
Is there any way to force this module to load, or is it unlikely to work anyway. If I find someone clever enough can this driver be 'reverse engineered' and recompiled for 2.2.18.
Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, however I would like to know one way or the other. I do have a regular modem I carry around with the laptop, but its obviously better to try and get the internal one to work.
Thank you and kind regards -- Mark Annandale SuSE 7.1 / 2.2.18 Kmail 1.1.19
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