[wplug] modprobe for a new module

[Poyner, Brandon]

Did you resolve this problem?  I was away on vacation last week.  

Have you tried 'modprobe -v blah'?  Do you want this module to
automatically load at boot time before init?

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org 
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf 
> Of Duncan Hutty
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 5:51 PM
> To: General user list
> Subject: Re: [wplug] modprobe for a new module
> 
> 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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