Greetings there,

I am installing the Cisco VPN Client on mandriva 2008(free).
I faced problems compiling the client, then it got fixed here

Now i am facing problems starting the client.
here are a few screenfull:


some stats:





I'm back stuck again getting the client working

PLease help!

thanks,
rohit.

Make a cisco_ipsec.ko.gz module and try again

Hi,



How do i go about doing that?

Thanks,
rohit.

Have you tried rebooting and seeing if you have a 2.6.22.9-1mdvcustom kernel you can boot into?

It looks like it compiled your module against that? Had you somewhere down the line tried to recompile your kernel? Getting the 'custom' in your modinfo is a sign of that.

Edit:
Ah, I see from your link that you applied a patch that is 'include'-ing 'linux/whatever', so if you are booting to a kernel whose source is not pointed to by the symlink /usr/src/linux or the /lib/modules/whatever/linux directory, then insmod will fail. Go to a console and type

ls -l /usr/src/linux

and if the symlink doesn't match what uname tells you, you will have to change the symlink to the right kernel and repatch your VPNclient (your patch is actually patching the client, not the kernel as far as I can tell) then recompile it.

Use gzip

Hi,



here's the output:





So as per your observation, these two are different.
where/how do i symlink the correct kernel?

@fdany : where do i put that file creted using gzip.

thanks,
rohit.

The '-desktop-' part is not important, so your source and uname match. The problem, though, is that the version magic of your module shows 'custom' which sounds like the compiling of the module altered the kernel's config file in the source. Since the version magic of the module does not match your installed kernel, you will probably wind up having to recompile your kernel using the config file that is in /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.9-1mdv/

If you would like to try it, I'd be happy to give you instructions on how to do that.

You may want to wait if someone has actually installed this package and knows whether or not I am mistaken since I have never installed it.

Mandriva uses compressed kernel modules and your error message indicates that the module was compiled but not compressed so all you have to do is find the module in the tree /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv/kernel/... (it's my kernel tree)
compress it with "gzip module-name.ko"
and that's all.

Ah, the obvious.

Hi,



I did as you told:




i got this:


here are the rights of the file:


then i created a .ko and .ko.gz file in the CiscoVPN dir:



Then i got this:



What next to do.

Thanks,
rohit.

You gzipped it but not in your kernel tree? Do this:



if it doesn't find the module here, then you cannot load it into the kernel and therefore this is why it's failing. It seems to me you extracted the cisco_ipsec tarball, and have compressed it in here, and it doesn't even exist in your kernel tree.

Hi,

the module seems to be there:


Also while searching over the net i came across this
I hope someone might have come across such a problem on mandriva or maybe this has already been taken care of.
I have not tried it on my system as of now.

Thanks,
rohit.

How did that CiscoVPN directory get there? Did you manually create it and put in in the kernel tree? Or was it compiled into the kernel and placed automatically there? IE: not copied by you?

I would have expected it to come under a different directory that is all. I've never used cisco_vpn, but it doesn't look normal.

Maybe try:

Hi,


Yes, it was compiled into the kernel and placed automatically there.



It's all normal, it worked flawlessly in the mandriva 2007(free) version. :-)

Thanks,
rohit.

Have you found the solution to this problem?
I'm on the same boat here.