On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:33:09AM +0530, Daniel Marian wrote: > I want to include smbfs support for my Linux machine(kernel 2.4.6). Linux-2.4.6 contains known bugs, you really should upgrade to linux-2.4.17. > I did a 'make modules'. > The smbfs.o module was created in the following directory > "/lib/modules/2.4.6/kernel/fs/smbfs/" > When I tried insmod smbfs.o, I encountered a list of unresolved symbols > > smbfs.o: unresolved symbol insert_inode_hash_Rc6152c87 > smbfs.o: unresolved symbol iput_Refe258b6 > smbfs.o: unresolved symbol d_delete_R1909c0c5 > smbfs.o: unresolved symbol find_inode_number_R2ab294bc > .... > Is the steps which I have followed correct ? > Should I rebuild the kernel to include smbfs support ? Always use modprobe to insert a module (modprobe smbfs), modprobe will automatically solve dependencies by loading the appropriate modules. If that doesn't work, your kernel is probably compiled with module versioning, while the smbfs module apparently isn't. Module versioning is subtly broken in linux-2.4 so you'd better avoid using it at all. See also: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq/index.php3#compmod.xml Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
