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I'm trying to test out driver development, and I have built a small sample module. I can use insmod and rmmod and modinfo with no problem but modprobe does not work? This is for a Debian Etch distro. I guess I don't understand modprobe?
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,700
Rep:
I guess you placed the module you made under the /lib/module/ under the running kernel here. Once you have done that you need to run the command ' /sbin/depmod -a ' to rebuild a new system.map file for locating the modules.
I guess you placed the module you made under the /lib/module/ under the running kernel here. Once you have done that you need to run the command ' /sbin/depmod -a ' to rebuild a new system.map file for locating the modules.
Brian
Thanks - you all were correct - first I had to run depmod, then not use the .ko. At least I'm getting somewhere!
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