Bug 113165

Summary:	slamr modem driver fails to load on IBM T41p notebook
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Gerald Pfeifer <gp>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Olaf Kirch <okir>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	All
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Output of hwinfo --modem

Description Gerald Pfeifer 2005-08-25 21:31:08 UTC

This is a regression from SL9.1 and SL9.2.  I installed the modem via
Yast, which then added the smartlink-softmodem package, but the modem
driver fails to load:

  rana:~ # /etc/init.d/slmodemd start
  Starting SmartLink Modem driver: FATAL: Error inserting slamr   
  (/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc6-git13-4-default/extra/slamr.ko): Unknown symbol in
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
  FATAL: Error inserting slusb  
  (/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc6-git13-4-default/extra/slusb.ko): Unknown symbol in
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/slmodemd: 255

When I try manually:

  rana:~ # /sbin/modprobe slamr
  FATAL: Error inserting slamr   
  (/lib/modules/2.6.13-rc6-git13-4-default/extra/slamr.ko): Unknown symbol in   
  module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

rana:~ # dmesg | tail
slamr: Unknown symbol class_destroy
slamr: Unknown symbol class_create
slamr: Unknown symbol class_device_create
slamr: Unknown symbol class_device_destroy

Comment 1 Gerald Pfeifer 2005-08-25 21:31:57 UTC

Created attachment 47672 [details]
Output of hwinfo --modem

Comment 2 Olaf Kirch 2005-08-26 08:08:19 UTC

slamr is non-GPL, and the above mentioned symbols are GPL only. 
I think we should drop the module from SL10, or convince smartlink 
to change their licensing. Takashi mentioned there are alternatives. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113038 ***