[PLUG] TRYING to configure / 2.4.3 kernel

[Rupert Heesom <raheesom@navpoint.com>]

Since trying to compile my own 2.4.3 kernel, I've made a lot of
configuration errors.

I'm slowly getting the use of my h/w components back!  Scanner is up and
running again....

My bootup still has some error msgs which can be ignored for the time
being.

However one thing I used to use is IPChains under the 2.2 kernel.
Under the 2.4 kernel, according to the Documentation/Changes file of the
2.4 kernel source, IPChains has now been superceded by Packet Filtering,
which apparantly works differently from IPChains.

However when configuring the 2.4 kernel, there is an option to enable
2.2 support for IPChains.
I enabled both support for IPchains, and all the packet filtering
options that I thought I might need, all as modules

I've had to change some of the default modprobe paths, putting the
following paths into the
/etc/modules.conf file -

path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.3
path[kernel]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel
path[fs]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/fs
path[net]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/net
path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/scsi
path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter  ***
ipchains path ***

When I now try to run depmod now, I get the following error msg:

[root@NAV-111 linux]# /sbin/depmod
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_filter.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o

When I try to run modprobe, I get the following error msg:

[root@NAV-111 linux]# /sbin/modprobe ipchains
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o: unresolved
symbol nf_unregister_hook
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o: unresolved
symbol nf_unregister_sockopt
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o: unresolved
symbol nf_register_hook
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o: unresolved
symbol nf_register_sockopt
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o: insmod ipchains
failed

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW -

Am I using too old a version of modutils, if the default module paths of
MODPROBE are the older module paths under kernel 2.2, rather than the
module paths I have under kernel 2.4?

My modutils version is:  modutils-2.4.2-5.  (It's the latest RPM
available for RH from rpmfind.net.)

What does the error msgs mean by "unresolved symbol"?

How do I go about fixing all this stuff???

-- 
regs
rupert


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