[ovs-dev] Bug#682182: ERROR: could not insert 'brcompat_mod': Exec format error when inserting brcompat_mod.ko

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:27:25PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> I was trying to enable Linux bridge compatibility with openvswitch in
> Wheezy, and when doing modprobe something appears to be wrong:
> # modprobe brcompat_mod
> ERROR: could not insert 'brcompat_mod': Exec format error

What does "file" on the .ko file show?  What does "dmesg | tail" show?