Re: Modules not showing up after compile - why?
On 04 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:16:35PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > However, lsmod and modprobe show nothing: there is no /proc/ksyms or
> > /proc/modules.
> >
> > Questions: why don't these things show up, and how does the kernel work
> > if the modules aren't there?
>
> Did you run LILO after you installed the kernel? If you didn't you are
> probably still booting into your old kernel. If you run `dmesg` you will
> get a list off all the boot-up messages; the first one will include the
> data the kernel was compiles. If you enabled modules you should have
> /proc/modules even if it's empty (assuming you have /proc mounted).
>
You're right; I had the wrong kernel loaded!
Now that I've got the right one, I again can't use sound or access my
parallel port. I get:
The kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
(maybe insmod driver?)
Opening /dev/audio: no such device.
I don't know which drivers to install with insmod. Anyway, I thought the
kernel was supposed to call these things automatically?
Anthony
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