[wplug] modprobe for a new module

Duncan Hutty dhutty+wplug at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Jul 7 17:51:13 EDT 2006


Poyner, Brandon wrote:
> Try running 'depmod -a' after moving the module into
> /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/blah.  depmod will build several
> indexes in /lib/modules/<kernel version> that modprobe uses.

I had actually tried that before I posted, to no avail. I think on 
further reflection that depmod only is useful for making sure that 
modules that have dependencies, have their dependency modules inserted 
beforehand.

Any more suggestions?

Duncan Hutty


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