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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Fresh out of .sigs today
