Re: lirc_serial not loading

[Jerry G. <ge...@pa...>]

> Oh, I love that error!  Try modprobe lirc_serial early in startup.  It 
> helped for me (I use lirc_sir though), I put it in my /etc/init.d/USB 
> script.
>
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>> I am getting the following on 2.6.20.4 kernel
>>
>> [root@mmamd64dual lirc-0.8.1]# modprobe lirc_serial
>> WARNING: Error inserting lirc_dev 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.20.4/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, 
>> or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>> FATAL: Error inserting lirc_serial 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.20.4/misc/lirc_serial.ko): Unknown symbol in 
>> module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>> [root@mmamd64dual lirc-0.8.1]#
>> [root@mmamd64dual lirc-0.8.1]# uname -a
>> Linux mmamd64dual.msgnet.com 2.6.20.4 #1 SMP Thu Apr 5 05:00:30 EDT 
>> 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> [root@mmamd64dual lirc-0.8.1]#
>>
>> dmesg gives:
>> lirc_dev: disagrees about version of symbol wake_up_process
>> lirc_dev: Unknown symbol wake_up_process
>> lirc_serial: Unknown symbol lirc_unregister_plugin
>> lirc_serial: Unknown symbol lirc_register_plugin
>>
>>
>> What have I not gotten right??
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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actually, I change my compile from using gcc 4 to gcc34 with "export 
CC=gcc34" and
rebuilt and it loaded as it always had.

I am trying the RHEL beta 2 actually centos 5 beta 2 and it comes with 
gcc 4 now.

THanks,

Jerry