[ale] Error: symbol foo is already defined.

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 31 January 2003 03:59 pm, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > Hmm, no problems like that here. All I had to do was blacklist
> > > CDCEther and usbdnet then worked fine on RH 8 w/ my Zaurus.
> >
> > I must confess I have no idea what you mean.  How does one "blacklist
> > CDCEther"?
>
> There are multiple drivers which all implement variants of Ethernet over
> USB. CDCEther is in the 2.4 kernels, and gets loaded automatically when
> you plug in the Z. It doesn't work, though -- I think the encapsulation
> checksum it does is for the iPaq, not for the Z. For the Z, you need the
> usbdnet driver, which isn't in the 2.4 kernels yet, but is in 2.5....
> Before you can use usbdnet, you'll need to disable CDCEther, which you
> do by adding the line
>
> CDCEther
>
> to /etc/hotplug/blacklist

Interesting.  I didn't do that and it still works--at least the first time 
I plug it in.  I'll see if that helps with the second time, too.

> > I had to patch the RH kernel and compile the module.  I think there
> > was some minor editing of a conf file to enable usbdnet.  I can
> > connect fine, but if I take the Z out of the cradle for a few hours,
> > when I put it back and turn it on I get a connection, followed by a
> > very hard crash of both my desktop and the Z.
> >
> > Are you using the Sharp rom, or OpenZaurus?
>
> Sharp. OZ ain't ready for prime-time yet....
>
> > Could you send me a copy of your usbdnet module?
>
> The binary module's not going to work for you -- I'm SMP, and also
> patched for IPSec. I'm using the 0.4b revision of the source, if you
> need a copy of that, though (look for the string DRIVER_VERSION to see
> which version you have).

That's what I'm using, too.  

Thanks,
Michael
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