[Bridge] bridge-utils-1.4 unknown symbols

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:31:30 -0500
jieryn at gmail.com wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm on a Gentoo vanilla-sources-2.6.24.2 kernel, with
> bridge-utils-1.4installed. When I try to modprobe bridge dmesg shows:
> 
> Feb 22 15:22:51 indigo bridge: Unknown symbol br_handle_frame_hook
> Feb 22 15:22:51 indigo bridge: Unknown symbol nf_register_hooks
> Feb 22 15:22:51 indigo bridge: Unknown symbol br_fdb_put_hook
> Feb 22 15:22:51 indigo bridge: Unknown symbol nf_unregister_hooks
> Feb 22 15:22:51 indigo bridge: Unknown symbol nf_hook_slow
> Feb 22 15:22:51 indigo bridge: Unknown symbol br_fdb_get_hook
> 
>

Your kernel wasn't built with bridging enabled. You can't just build the
bridge module standalone, the kernel itself needs to include bridging.

Save your kernel config and then rebuild:

cp .config config.sav
make mrproper
make