Re: Is this a newbie question?

have you tried using 'modprobe [module]' (without the extention)?
if this works properly then you can add it to the /etc/modules list. This will allow it to be autoloaded. You may have to use the full pathname in both instances.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brock Campbell <lists@acceltech.ca>
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 9:01 pm
Subject: Is this a newbie question?

> I need to create a custom module for my stock dapper kernel. I've
> triedcompiling from source and doing the the make modules && make
> modules_install thing, but it just dumps the module into another
> librarydirectory and ignores it at load time.
>
> I know this should be a simple thing, but I'm stuck. can anybody
> give me
> a shove in the right direction?
>
> Thanks
>
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Received on Fri May 5 09:25:56 2006