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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc - shouldn't this be a directory?

From: Ben Lancaster <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:41:07 +0100

Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hey,

I can't seem to install the standalone imon_vfd drivers from http://venky.ws:


# make install
depmod
/usr/bin/install imon_vfd.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

Following that:
# modprobe imon_vfd
FATAL: Module imon_vfd not found.

By my logic, shouldn't the install process have effectively copiedthe imon_vfd driver to a directory called misc within my running kernel?


Here's what stat says:

# stat /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
  File: `/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp/misc'

Size: 139196 Blocks: 280 IO Block: 4096 regularfile

Device: 304h/772d       Inode: 28935873    Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2006-06-04 19:32:39.000000000 +0100
Modify: 2006-06-04 19:32:39.000000000 +0100
Change: 2006-06-04 19:32:39.000000000 +0100

It's an executable file! Is that right??

# yum list installed | grep kernel

kernel-smp.i686 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5installedkernel-smp.i686 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5installedkernel-smp-devel.i686 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5installed


Thanks!

Ben