This pertains to the 17 DEC 2003 AMD64 beta. Loading *any* module at install time with modprobe yields invalid module format errors. For example, modprobing the VIA-RHINE module yields: mii: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module warning: error insterting mii (/lib/modules/2.6.0/kernel/drivers/net/mii.ko): Invalid module format via_rhine: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module fatal: error inserting via_rhine (/lib/modules/2.6.0/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.ko): invalid module format Workaround: Loading the SMP kernel (even on non-SMP systems like my laptop) allows modules to be loaded.
yep, that's why the 12/17 was removed from the mirrors :/ use the 12/21 one ... I'll reply in that forum too.
Jubilee Web Ltd has 3 second hand computers, about 15 months old. The man in the shop said that they had AMD processors. When one is booted on a Gentoo CD it states: Processor 0 is AMD Duron(tm) Processor 1202MHz, 64 KB Cache... No Network device auto detected... ... The command uname -a gets the response: Linux cdimage 2.4.21-gss #1 Mon Jul 21 00:38:59 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux . The computers have Ethernet cards made by Accton. So require the 8139too driver. I got these to compile an boot up on a kernel, emerged from gentoo-sources. However, whenether the kernel was compiled for a K7 processor, modprobe 8139too failed. But when the kernel had been compiled for PentiumIII, modprobe 8139too worked. I obtained the CD with a copy of Linux Format magazine LXF46 November 2003.
Jubilee Web Ltd has 3 second hand computers, about 15 months old. The man in the shop said that they had AMD processors. When one is booted on a Gentoo CD it states: Processor 0 is AMD Duron(tm) Processor 1202MHz, 64 KB Cache... No Network device auto detected... ... The command uname -a gets the response: Linux cdimage 2.4.21-gss #1 Mon Jul 21 00:38:59 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux . The computers have Ethernet cards made by Accton. So require the 8139too driver. I got these to compile and boot up on a kernel, emerged from gentoo-sources. However, whenether the kernel was compiled for a K7 processor, modprobe 8139too failed. But when the kernel had been compiled for PentiumIII, modprobe 8139too worked. I obtained the CD with a copy of Linux Format magazine LXF46 November 2003.
I had rebooted onto various experimental kernels and run menuconfig, thus obtained the above results. Since my comment on 02 Feb, I have got it to work. The CD-ROM is Gentoo Linux 1.4 . To get the kernel modules to work I booted the computer on the CD ROM followed the instructions to chroot I gave the commands.. env-update source /etc-profile emerge unmerge gentoo-sources rm /usr/src/linux rm -r /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6/ emerge -p sys-kernel/gentoo-sources tar -cf /root/gento-sources.uni.tar make menuconfig make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install cp -p /boot/bzImage.. /boot/bzImage.. /sbin/lilo etc-update exit umount .. reboot. ... -- Afterwards, whenever I try a new configuration, I start by: cp -pi /usr/src/linux/.config /root/.config... rm /usr/src/linux rm -r /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6/ tar -xf /root/gentoo-source.uni.tar cp pi /root/.config... /usr/src/linux/.config make menuconfig It works, even for Athlon Duron K7, and not using smp. It loads the kernel modules when I ask it to. How much of all that is necessary, I do not know. E&OE
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
