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Whenever I "make modules_install" it overwrites the entire /lib/modules/2.6.14/ directory and I need to reinstall all of my custom modules such as the wireless device driver.
Hi Murdock1979,
i take a quick way by installing modules which are already installed by me and found every time you run make modules_install on preinstalled kernel it gets overwritten. so you have to either extract source for module files. compile them and install/copy to /lib/modules/kernel/build
but one thing i didnt get that is if you are doing modification to kernel source and recompiling it without modifying existing other source files then let it be to overwrite modules. are you facing any other problem doing that ?
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