[ale] On-Topic: WTF did they do to modules???

[Joseph A Knapka]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> /hijack political thread

An ON TOPIC POST?!?!? You could be forcibly unsubscribed for that,
you know :-)

> Ok, back to my screwy semi-debian systems for a couple mins.
> 
> 
>   Ok, still working with lm-sensors and beat a few more things into shape.
> I finally got a good compile of both the kernel+i2c and lm-sensors (i2c
> was missing some modules that are in the lm-sensors source, but not in
> the debian package).
> 
>   depmod -av is reporting nothing, when I do a "modprobe i2c-proc",
> "modprobe i2c-proc.o", "insmod i2c-proc", "insmod i2c-proc.o" nothing.

Try "modprobe i2c-proc". If you don't give the full path, the module
utils don't want an actual filename, just a module name.

-- Joe


> However "insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-proc.o" loads
> just fine.  Executing "/etc/init.d/modutils" pops up that it can't
> locate modules as well.
> 
>   The depmod man pages says to put the modules in "/etc/modutils.conf"
> and a bit of back-digging leads me to /etc/modules/paths where I insert:
> 
> path=/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/i2c
> 
> then execute "update-modules".  A depmod -av now shows my modules listed
> out.  A "modprobe <module>" still leaves me with a can't locate.  
> 
> Thoughts?
>   Robert
> 
> P.S. Sorry for the long windedness but I'm trying to include all the
> details that may be relevant.
>  
> 
> :wq!
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