[ILUG] Modules

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:01:39PM +0100, David Murphy wrote:
> What is the deal with Linux kernel modules? Please excuse my
> ignorance, since for the last few years I've been using FreeBSD and
> Solaris, where modules Just Work, so I'm a bit at sea.
> 
> Having just installed RedHat 6.2 on my desktop PC, having decided it
> was less work to move to linux than get VMware, Helix GNOME, and sundy
> other Linux-centric things working on FreeBSD, I got around to
> recompiling the supplied kernel, and did the following:
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make xconfig
> <configure things>
> make dep
> make
> make modules
> make modules_install
> make install
> 
> Now, when I rebooted, I got pages of 'Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/vfat.o' etc. etc. etc.
> 
> As a workaround, I've configured a monolithic kernel instead, and that
> works, but alas, VMware wants to compile its special vmware module, so
> it turns out I do need to solve the problem.
> 
> I've read through the kernel-HOWTO, and the modules installation
> mini-HOWTO, but I can't for the life of me figure out what I've done
> to stop it from Just Working like it does everywhere else.
Which kernel version do you have?

which kernel are you booting. Have you tried
cd /lib/modules
mv 2.2.14-5.0 test
cd /usr/src/linux
make modules_install
depmod -a

and such like. Problem 1 is that RedHat kernel comes with all
modules, so there will be loads of unused modules in there..

L.
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