Re: Help!! with modules
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:40:57 -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:32:58AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
>> For some reason, I cannot get the modules loaded (or so it seems) with
>> kernel 2.2.17. I go through all the steps: make menuconfig make dep
>> make bzImage make modules make modules_install make bzlilo.
> (snip)
>> "Can't open dependencies file: /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (no
>> such file or directory)
>
>Try running depmod. Also check out kernel-package. It contains make-kpgk
>that compiles a kernel and puts it into a deb package.
I will have a go at both. Further analysis indicates that the modules
are simply not being copied/written to /lib/modules/2.2.17. That is,
there are only three that are: ppp_deflate.o, bsd_comp.o (in
/lib/../net), and zft-compressor.o (in /lib/.../misc). There are no
other subdirectories, and modules.dep contains only those three.
Interestingly, the kernel source (i.e. in /usr/src/linux shows exactly
those three modules in /usr/src/linux/drivers/modules, and no others).
If I attempt to insmod rtl8139.o, for example (I'm trying to set up a
home network), using /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/rtl8139.o, I get the
error message: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was
compiled for".
Would it suffice to simply copy all the drivers to /lib/modules/2.2.17?
TIA
Cam
Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych.
cam_ellison@uniserve.com or cam@fleuryassociates.com
>From the lovely Sunshine Coast, where it only SEEMS to rain.
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