6 Oct
2004
6 Oct
'04
05:23
Hi,
If I try to build any of my drivers (e100,e1000,bcm5700,vlan) in SuSE9, I am seeing the message "unsupported module, tainting kernel".
But this is not creating any other problem. I want to know why is this message coming?
It usually means that the module is commercial, non open-source, or perhaps doesn't conform to the GPL in some way. I know the e100 is like this and I get it with the linuxant driver for my wireless card. It will work OK, but the kernel will complain at you for using it. Some purists will just not use such code. David