[hcflinux] hcfpciosspec.o will taint the kernel

[Angus Auld]

Hi Justin, "urpmi" in Mdk 9.0 apparently now does a check to verify gpg 
signatures before installing anything. I didn't have any problem with the 
HCF modem driver, but I get bad signature warnings sometime when installing 
non-Mandrake packages. As far as I can determine, one should be safe with 
packages from a reputable source. I never experienced these warnings w/Mdk 
8.2, so it is an added feature of "urpmi" in Mdk 9.0 it would seem.

The "tainted kernel" may refer to a non-Mdk gpg sig. module install?

Also, sometimes you have to manually create the /dev/modem link to 
/dev/ttySHCF0 with the command: ln -s /dev/ttySHCFO /dev/modem

You may have to delete a bogus /dev/modem link first if one exists. I have 
encountered this on some of my installs.

Hope this may help some. All the best to you! :-)



--Angus

"LET US NOT LOOK BACK IN ANGER OR FORWARD IN FEAR, BUT AROUND IN 
AWARENESS."----James Thurber

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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Justin Young" <fuzzrules22 at hotmail.com>
To: hcflinux at lists.mbsi.ca
Subject: [hcflinux] hcfpciosspec.o will taint the kernel
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:09:33 +1000

Hello there,

This is a new one. I just upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0, after having 
much success in easilly installing my HCF modem under 8.2 and using it with 
no problem, this time installation isnt so easy.

Everything 'pretends' to install, but actually doesnt, I discovered that the 
/dev/ttySHC0 doesnt exist. So curious about this I checked the FAQ and saw 
that this may be common on devfs systems like Mandrake, and I should run 
'modprobe hcfpciserial'. Doing so revealed something quite interesting, 
apparently hcfpciosspec.o will taint the kernel!!
The error I got was:

Warning: loading 
/usr/lib/hcfpci/modules/binaries/i586/Mandrake/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/hcfpciosspec.o 
will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Conexant 
Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted 
modules

I checked it out, and it said that the drivers may not be signed correctly 
to be added to a precompiled binary such as Mandrake Kernel. I tried 
compiling my own with Kernel version 2.5.9 but thats more hassle than 
anything.

Any one else had the problem, or got ideas?

     - Justin

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