vmnet.ko missing - but it's there! - vmware and crashes

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 21 08:46:24 PDT 2004


Ben Paley wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 23:59, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> 
>>Recompile the vmnet.ko binary from source and see if that helps.
> 
> 
> I remade the whole thing, in the end, and now at least I'm not getting crashes 
> (at least, I think I remade the module... I did make and make install and so 
> on in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/ , but I couldn't see how to compile 
> vmnet.ko on its own).
> 
> On boot I still get this:
> 
> Additional ABI support: linux.
> Starting cron.
> Local package initialization:link_elf: symbol linux_ioctl_register_handler 
> undefined
> kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or 
> directory

Is your linux.ko module out of date?  You have a mis-match somewhere here.

Scott


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