On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:23:39 -0500 Gale Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 8-§ > I'm trying to mount a floppy disk with a vfat filesystem. But it seems my kernel doesn't handle vfat at this point. I thought I enabled vfat support as a loadable module before compiling the kernel, but it seems I goofed. 8-§ > 8-§ > If I want to load a module to the kernel dynamically, from what I understand, I just use 8-§ > 8-§ > insmod [module_name] 8-§ > 8-§ > And assuming the module is in my /lib/modules/2.4.10 directory, the kernel should load the module. Right? 8-§ > 8-§ > My problem now is, I don't know the precise name of the module I should load. 8-§ > 8-§ > In /lib/modules/2.4.10/build/vfat I see three files. 8-§ > 8-§ > vfatfs_syms.c 8-§ > Makefile 8-§ > namei.c 8-§ > 8-§ > As an experiment, I did 8-§ > 8-§ > insmod vfatfs_syms.c 8-§ > 8-§ > and I got an error, "vfatfs_syms.c is not an ELF file". I tried the same thing for namei.c and got the same error. 8-§ > 8-§ > Any ideas? 8-§ > 8-§ > thanks! 8-§ > Gale Stafford
Why don't you think to use modconf: graphical front-end to install modules in the kernel? I currently use it and I find it simple. So if you want to do so type modconf, search for vfat module and install it. It is like you do insmod ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- <<Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are!>> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
