[dpdk-dev] dpdk 1.6 insmod rte_kni error

[Zhou, Danny]

Have you insmod hwmon.ko on your system? Also, you may want to build the DPDK on your system as KNI kernel module depends on local kernel source code. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of rong wen
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 7:35 PM
> To: dev
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] dpdk 1.6 insmod rte_kni error
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am a new guy to use dpdk. The kernel version is 2.6.32.
> 
> After I build the rte_kni.ko, I run insmod rte_kni.ko, error message is:
> 
> Unloading any existing DPDK KNI module
> Loading DPDK KNI module
> insmod: error inserting
> '/home/wenrong.wr/dpdk_dev_r1-6-0/x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc/kmod/rte_kni.ko':
> -1 Unknown symbol in module
> ## ERROR: Could not load kmod/rte_kni.ko.
> 
> The dmesg output is:
> 
> [181831.351549] rte_kni: Unknown symbol hwmon_device_register
> [181831.353671] rte_kni: Unknown symbol hwmon_device_unregister
> [182558.257153] rte_kni: Unknown symbol hwmon_device_register
> [182558.259288] rte_kni: Unknown symbol hwmon_device_unregister
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Rong