[ltp] Re: tpctl 0.8.0

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 20:26:21 -0500


Check your /etc/conf.modules to make sure that
the path to the thinkpad modules is correct.
You can compare with mine (via my web page at
http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm ).

Did you compile your kernel with MODVERSIONS set?

--
Thomas Hood

Thomas Wimmer wrote:
> 
> Thomas Hood wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure you compiled tpctl against a 2.2.13
> > source tree?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > What exactly are the unresolved symbols?  This info
> > should be printed when you try to insmod each of
> > the modules.
> 
> depmod -a
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/thinkpad.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/smapi.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/superio.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/rtcmosram.o
> 
> insmod thinkpad; insmod smapi; insmod superio; insmo rtcmosram
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/thinkpad.o
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/smapi.o
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/superio.o
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.13/thinkpad/rtcmosram.o
> 
> lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> rtcmosram               1728   0  (unused)
> superio                 5944   0  (unused)
> smapi                   2744   0  (unused)
> thinkpad                3324   0  [rtcmosram superio smapi]
> 
> tpctl -ib
> information about bios and system:
> 
> rmmod smapi superio rtcmosram thinkpad
> 
> tpctl -ib
> tpctl: module required for request is not loaded.
> 
> lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> thinkpad                3324   0  (autoclean)
> 
> It seems that the autopload of the modules doesn't work, but once
> the modules are loaded, everything works.
> But what is this about the "unresolved symbols" ?
> 
> > --
> > Thomas
> 
> Thomas
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