Lisa Evans wrote: >I upgraded from Mandrake 8.0 to 8.2, which might explain some problems >I've been having (since I didn't do a clean install). First of all, I >recently got a NIC that is supposed to be able to run under Linux. It >can use the 8139too module or the rtl8139 module which I downloaded and >compiled (after some hassles with the version.h include file). However, >neither of these modules will load with insmod because of unresolved >symbol errors. > >I also have onboard sound, which works under the OSS drivers but not >very well, so I wanted to install the ALSA driver for it >(snd-card-via686a). Even though I used the ALSA drivers source provided >with Mandrake 8.2, I get unresolved symbol errors on that as well. > >>From google groups searches and some advice from a friend, I thought >turning off version checking in the kernel and recompiling would fix >this. However, I get errors during make modules! I don't understand why >I get errors compiling the source code that Mandrake provided. > >Any thoughts? > >Lisa Evans > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > 8139too is compiled into the kernel as a module--you should not have needed it at all...
I would say save your data and do a fresh install, then chkconfig --del alsa and edit /etc/modules.conf to plug in the OSS driver for your sound card. (Look in /lib/modules/(kernelnumber)/kernel/drivers/sound) and alias sound (modulename without the .o) is usually sufficient. Civileme
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