Re: kernel-module confusion

[maart <maart50@gmx.net>]

Nathan E Norman wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:29:01PM +0000, maart wrote:
>
> > Hai all. 
> > This is my first ever post to a newsgroup, so please forgive me if I do/say 
> > something weird...
> >
> > I use potato, and have been trying the 2.4test-kernels for a couple of 
> > weeks.
> >
> > I have trouble using modules that I compile with the kernel. Whenever I 
> > compile a kernel that uses modules I type : make dep clean bzImage modules 
> > modules_install. I think this should work. 
> >
> > When this works, however, I think there should be some file called 
> > 'modules.dep' in the /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/. This file is present, 
> > however: it is empty. All the modules seem to have been made, and installed 
> > in the right place, but this modules.dep file, that I guess is needed to 
> > load modules with modprobe, is completely empty.
>
>
> Run `depmod -a' as root once you complete the above steps.  This is
> supposed to happen on reboot; at least that's how the boot scripts
> used to work.

I actually tried that, but to no avail. I asked a collegue of mine about 
this problem and learned that it's likely to be the fact that I'm trying 
to compile a 2.4test kernel on a potato-distribution (i.e.: that won't 
work.).
I'll try compiling a 2.2.17  kernel with modules and see how that goes.


> <blatant plug>
> You should install and use the package "kernel-package" to build your
> kernels ... it's quite slick
> </blatant plug>

Thanks, I'll try that anyway.

Maarten.

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