insmod error: Couldn't find kernel version module was compiled for

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Joel Hammer:
> This was the video card thread, but I have made great progress.  I found
> that if you use a -keep option with the installer script, it saves
> everything, including the instructions, so you can fiddle with whatever.

Yup. That used to be in the instructions NVIDIA supplied.

> I tracked down the Makefile for building the kernel module and put in the
> IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH
> directive.

Ah. You can also do "make -DIGNORE_CC_MISMATCH <blah>".

> I then ran the installer script and everything went well until the end
> where, as usual, depmod wouldn't run, but, I overrode that and things
> went to completion.
> 
> When I try to install the module with insmod -f, I get the error listed
> in the title of this letter.

If you don't have a properly configured kernel, you'll get this error.

Kurt
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