Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Richard <rick47@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to build a module to run an HPT372N chip.  The HPT site has 
pre-built modules and kernels for SuSE 8.1 and lower, but not 8.2.  They do 
provide an open source module download.  I downloaded that and have been 
trying to build the module for my SuSE 8.2-athlon system.  It seems no matter 
what I do the module built, when I try to insmod it to see if it will load, 
gives an error saying it was built for -2.4.20-4GB while I am running 
-2.4.20-athlon.  I copied version and autoconf files from /boot to my source 
files in /usr/src/linux but still get the same errors.  
I assume I could modprobe with --force but that always warns with the 
...tainted kernel warning and I don't want to trust my system to ignoring 
that message.  
I hope I did not screw something else up that I did not understand by running 
depmod -F /proc/ksyms to try to get version symbols to match.  That seemed to 
make sense in the man description.  Still same errors.  Any help?  I may need 
to be led by the nose through this.  Richard