From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 3 21:13:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from urban.iinet.net.au (urban.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB79537C65D for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 21:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from jules.elischer.org (reggae-24-128.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.89.128]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA22899; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:12:58 +0800 Message-ID: <3939D745.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 21:12:53 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware1/linux broken References: <3938B355.59E2B600@elischer.org> <20000603213636.C16967@lucifer.bart.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > -On [20000603 09:30], Julian Elischer (julian@elischer.org) wrote: > >If you use the linux kernel module, > >you cannot use the vmware module with it. > >This has changed sometime in the last month or so. > >the vmware module cannot find a symbol in the linux > >module that it needs. > > The obvious: > > which symbol? =) kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/modules/vmmon.ko: Exec format error kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/modules/vmnet.ko: Exec format error vmware.sh: cannot create /dev/vmnet1: no such device or address jules# dmesg [...] link_elf: symbol linux_ioctl_register_handler undefined link_elf: symbol linux_ioctl_register_handler undefined jules# the symbols are present and the linux module is loaded. link-elf is just incapable of seeing symbols in the module, only in the actual kernel. if you compile with COMPAT_LINUX it all works fine. > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator > VIA Net.Works The Netherlands > BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl > Who looks under the surface does so at his own risk... -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message