Bug 113165 - slamr modem driver fails to load on IBM T41p notebook
Summary: slamr modem driver fails to load on IBM T41p notebook
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113038
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: i386 All
: P5 - None : Critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olaf Kirch
QA Contact: E-mail List
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-08-25 21:31 UTC by Gerald Pfeifer
Modified: 2005-08-26 08:08 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
Found By: Development
Services Priority:
Business Priority:
Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: ---
IT Deployment: ---

Attachments
Output of hwinfo --modem (1.02 KB, text/plain)
2005-08-25 21:31 UTC, Gerald Pfeifer 		Details
View All Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
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 ***