Antonio Olivares wrote:
--- On Tue, 6/10/08, Richard England <rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Richard England <rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Changes in kernel mess up Cisco VPN build
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 9:50 PM
Is there anyone here that builds kernel modules that might
provide some
insight into what might have changed in the kernel between
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 and 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 to cause an
invalid
module format to be built? These are, I believe the next
to last and
last kernel updates, respectively.
The builds under both kernels appear to run correctly (no
error
messages) but when you try install the module it errors:
[root@wimsey vpnclient]# /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start
Starting /opt/cisco-vpnclient/bin/vpnclient: insmod: error
inserting
'/lib/modules/2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686/CiscoVPN/cisco_ipsec.ko':
-1 Invalid
module format
Failed (insmod)
After building the packages run dmesg to see how they are loaded.
$ su -
password:
# modprobe cisco_ipsec
what does it give you?
then run dmesg on the same terminal or another tabbed one
$ dmesg
should output something back about compatibility.
This is the
vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.01.0640-k9_f8.tar.gz build from
Cisco (obtainable from
ftp://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/vc-graz/vpn/vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.01.0640-k9.tar.gz
as modified by the patch from
http://projects.tuxx-home.at/ciscovpn/patches/vpnclient-linux-2.6.24-final.diff
The patch is for 2.6.24 kernels right?, there were some changes in the newer 2.6.25 kernels, the fastcall, FASTCALL() procedures were removed. I had a problem with building drivers for a modem, I have an external modem, but could not connect with Fedora using it, only with SLAX.
Anyhow the Makefile had
EXTRA_CFLAGS += ????
and changing it to
EXTRA_CPPFLAGS += ????
fixed it for me. Give it a try and report back.
-EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DKMARTIAN_STAMP=20061202
+EXTRA_CPPFLAGS += -DKMARTIAN_STAMP=20061202
HTH,
Antonio
The tar file contains an install script that uses make but,
while I can
read the make file, I'm a relative newby when it comes
to modules so
any insight will be helpful.
Thanks,
~~Richard
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Thank you, Antonio. At least now I have something to investigate. From
dmesg I found:
cisco_ipsec: version magic '2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 SMP mod_unload 686
4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS '
So somehow, it still thinks it has and old kernel. Maybe a 'make clean".?
Okay, that was it, I think. I should know better than that. Really bad
build procedures to not do a "make clean" before you rebuild. I should
note, however, that you don't want to change "EXTRA_CFLAGS" to
"EXTRA_CPPFLAGS", in this instance. This cause a whole raft of errors. I
set it back.
Thanks for your assistance.
~~R
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