Subject: Re: "make modules" doesn't work
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 11:21:30 MST
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Andy Hocker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found out I need to hack a module to get my digital camera
> to work. When I do "make modules", however, I get a message
> saying that the kernel wasn't built with loadable module support
> and that I need to rebuild my kernel with this enabled. Well,
> this seems like a lie because my kernel is the default YDL 2.1
> and who in their right mind builds a kernel without loadable
> module support? And in fact if I look at the .config (I think
> it's the right one) loadable modules is definitely enabled.
> Is there something I need to do before "make modules?" Like
> make dep, or make clean, or make mrproper, or....?
>
normal kernel build method is:
make dep ; make clean ; make vmlinuz ; make modules ; make modules_install
You can compile modules from source without messing with your kernels, but
I do not belive that is advisable (as some kernels may have Set
Module Symbols to prevent that sort of thing.
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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