Not using modified module

ahuguet at cttc.es ahuguet at cttc.es
Wed Apr 11 05:15:37 EDT 2007


> 2) make -C /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17 SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules

Typo, this should read: make -C /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17 SUBDIRS=`pwd`
modules_install

After this step I get:
INSTALL /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.ko
  INSTALL
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.ko
  INSTALL
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_pci.ko
  INSTALL
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.ko
  DEPMOD  2.6.17.14-ubuntu1

More information;
inside /lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1 I've a folder named "extra" that
contains hostap modules (hostap, hostap_cs, hostap_plx and hostap_pci ko
files)

Seeing the content of modules.dep file on /lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1
I see:

/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/extra/hostap_plx.ko:
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/extra/hostap_pci.ko:
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/extra/hostap_cs.ko:
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/extra/hostap.ko:
/lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko

Hope this is of use for any of you to know what might be wrong, and why
the modified modules seem not to be used.

Thanks.




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