Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169676
module ppp_generic is broken
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:22:20 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: module ppp_generic is broken in kernel 2.6.13-1.1526. [thomas@ws01 ~]$ sudo modprobe ppp_generic FATAL: Error inserting ppp_generic (/lib/modules/2.6.13-1.1526_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) [thomas@ws01 ~]$ dmesg ... ppp_generic: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_add ppp_generic: Unknown symbol class_simple_destroy ppp_generic: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_remove ppp_generic: Unknown symbol class_simple_create Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot kernel kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 2. modprobe ppp_generic Additional info:
This also occurs under i686 (32-bit) hardware. John.
As far as I can tell the change between the kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 and kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 kernel releases causing the problem could well be this: commit cd987d38cc59053e0bab8150ffaca33b109067f3 Author: gregkh@suse.de <gregkh@suse.de> Date: Wed Mar 23 11:12:38 2005 -0800 [PATCH] class: remove class_simple code, as no one in the tree is using it anymore. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> This was taken from the 2.6.13 kernel changelog. John.
works fine here. (19:13:25:root@firewall:~)# uname -a Linux firewall.kernelslacker.org 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 #1 Wed Sep 28 19:15:10 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (19:13:45:root@firewall:~)# modprobe ppp_generic (19:13:51:root@firewall:~)# dmesg | tail -n1 PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 A grep across the kernel source doesn't show any instance of those symbols. Are you guys building your own ppp_generic module from source ?
It is a bug in the kernel_ppp_mppe package I have installed dkms-2.0.6-3.fc4 from Fedora Extras and kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms from pptpclient.sf.net. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1310332&group_id=44827&atid=441003