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Re: compat-drivers 3.7-rc1: cfg80211 fails to load on 3.0.0-26-generic-pae [AV#3438]

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I'm trying to use compat-drivers to gain support for the Intel Centrino
> Wireless-N (iwlwifi driver) on the Ubuntu Oneiric kernel backported to Lucid
> (3.0.0-26-generic-pae). The driver compiles but fails to install, with the
> following error:
>
> [  578.661869] Compat-drivers backport release: compat-drivers-v3.7-rc1-6
> [  578.661879] Backport based on linux-stable.git v3.7-rc1
> [  578.661885] compat.git: linux-stable.git
> [  578.664089] cfg80211: Unknown symbol simple_open (err 0)
>

Are you sure that you installed the modules correctly on your system?
simple_open() is a new symbol that should normally be provided by the
compat layer (compat.ko). Do you have any undefined symbol warnings at
the end of the building process?
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