Background: My laptop (Acer Aspire 5602WLMi) has an ipw3945 wireless card. I have been succesful in compiling the driver needed for this card and I can connect to my AP. However I still have to load the driver from the source directory using './load debug=0' because modprobe cannot find the module (driver): # /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 FATAL: Module ipw3945 not found.
I (obviously) get the same error at boot time. According to the ipw3945 documentation I had to copy the ipw3945.ko file to /lib/modules/$(uname -r) but that does not appear to be enough (for Debian?). The documentation I can find on modules (modprobe, modutils, etc.) in the Debian reference, the Debian wiki and google/linux appears to be fragmented, outdated and incomplete. I am probably using the wrong keywords but I can't find information on how the entire "module system" is working in Debian (or Linux in general). Where can I find an overview of which components are needed and how they work together? How should extra modules like this one be installed? I have found that module-init-tools replaces modutils since kernel 2.5.48 but I have both on my system: # dpkg -l "modu*" | grep ii ii module-assistant 0.10.6 tool to make module package creation easier ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel modules ii modutils 2.4.27.0-6 Linux module utilities I have the following configuration files on my system: # lh -d /etc/mod* drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 384 2006-10-08 17:45 /etc/modprobe.d/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 2006-07-28 22:11 /etc/modules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18K 2006-10-08 17:44 /etc/modules.conf drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 336 2006-10-08 17:44 /etc/modutils/ I am running debian testing with a self-compiled kernel. TIA Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # debian testing kernel 2.6.17-2-686 i686 1024MB RAM # # 12:54:23 up 15 days, 2:27, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00 # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
