Problems with Compaq W200 wireless card

stan stanb at panix.com
Sat Nov 12 14:31:39 UTC 2005


I have a Compaq N410C which has a W200 USB based wireless card.

I found this page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com//InstallingCompaqW200

and followed the directions (yes I used GCC 3.4 to compile the modules0.

All went well untill I tried to modprobe the driver, then I got:

root at brown2:~/orinoco/firmware# modprobe -v orinoco_usb
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_usb.ko
FATAL: Error inserting orinoco_usb
(/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_usb.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

The tail end of dmesg looks like this:

[4301317.774000] orinoco_usb: disagrees about version of symbol
free_orinocodev
[4301317.774000] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol free_orinocodev
[4301317.774000] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol __orinoco_ev_rx
[4301317.775000] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol __orinoco_ev_info
[4301317.775000] orinoco_usb: disagrees about version of symbol
alloc_orinocodev[4301317.775000] orinoco_usb: Unknown symbol
alloc_orinocodev


What am I doing wrong?




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