Thank you all for your responses. Beena
-----Original Message----- From: Michael MacIsaac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.2 - install by tape? > can someone tell me what > it means to not be "able to insmod the qdio/qeth driver"? As I understand it ... There are a number of ways to do networking on Linux on zSeries. Ususally the driver is a Linux module. Linux modules are often added to the Linux kernel via the insmod command. In order to "insmod" a module, it needs to be compatible. If the module is built at a different level than the kernel and contains no unresolved external symbols, the module can still be "insmod"ed with the -f (force) flag. If there are unresolved symbols (data or code areas referenced, but not present), then the module simply will not "insmod", and therefore cannot be used. This is the case with an upgraded Red Hat 2.4.9-31 kernel and the qdio/qeth modules at the 2.4.9-17 level available on IBM developerWorks. Therefore, if you want to upgrade the kernel, you cannot use the qdio/qeth drivers which are used for the OSA-Express in QDIO mode (TYPE=OSD) and for hipersockets. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061
