problem with insmod and modprobe
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I am learing how to write driver modules in linux.. but for some reason i can't load the modules ( i have written ) with insmod or modprobe. I am using Mandrake 10 ( Kernel 2.6 ). The modules that come with the kernel are all stored in ".ko.gz" format.. for example the module rivafb would be stored as "rivafb.ko.gz"
That's why i even tried to gzip my modules before trying insmod but it didn't work.
Does anyone know where to go from here ?
are you using the SUBDIR makefile method?
pretty much nothing else works for 2.6 external modules.
pretty much nothing else works for 2.6 external modules.
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the error message i am getting is
"Error in inserting hello.o . -1 invalid object format"
And this is really getting quite frustrating for me. The book i am reading, the articles i am reading , all building their modules in the following manner
$ gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -c hello.c
$ insmod ./hello.o
but IT'S not working in my system... (Mandrake 10 kernel 2.6)
as a matter of fact.. all the modules in /lib/modules/..../drivers
reside as ".ko.gz" format except for the "nvidia.ko" which is installed by the NVIDIA installer... and it works ! I did a lil of digging into the "Makefile" of NVIDIA installer and it didn't seem to have done anything special with the building process.. except for creating device entries in /dev
Please someone help me....
my hello.c , btw, doesn't contain anything more than a simple init_module and cleanup_module.
:(
"Error in inserting hello.o . -1 invalid object format"
And this is really getting quite frustrating for me. The book i am reading, the articles i am reading , all building their modules in the following manner
$ gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -c hello.c
$ insmod ./hello.o
but IT'S not working in my system... (Mandrake 10 kernel 2.6)
as a matter of fact.. all the modules in /lib/modules/..../drivers
reside as ".ko.gz" format except for the "nvidia.ko" which is installed by the NVIDIA installer... and it works ! I did a lil of digging into the "Makefile" of NVIDIA installer and it didn't seem to have done anything special with the building process.. except for creating device entries in /dev
Please someone help me....
my hello.c , btw, doesn't contain anything more than a simple init_module and cleanup_module.
:(
Author
Thanx C-Junkie... but could u please explain SUBDIR build a bit... a detail would be really helpful.
Thanx C-Junkie...
Finally i have been able to get the modules up and running :) in Kernel-2.6. Suh! they have changed quite a lot with the build process. Itz still not very clear to me yet though.. but that was a nice starting point :).
However, the damn "printk" is not working :(. I did include "" with the text :
printk(" Hello\n").
but still nothing's been displayed. Be sure that he init funtion has been properly called during insmod; i checked that in a different way ;); but just can't get the "printk" working :s.
Finally i have been able to get the modules up and running :) in Kernel-2.6. Suh! they have changed quite a lot with the build process. Itz still not very clear to me yet though.. but that was a nice starting point :).
However, the damn "printk" is not working :(. I did include "" with the text :
printk(" Hello\n").
but still nothing's been displayed. Be sure that he init funtion has been properly called during insmod; i checked that in a different way ;); but just can't get the "printk" working :s.
Author
Thanx C-Junkie...
Finally i have been able to get the modules up and running :) in Kernel-2.6. Suh! they have changed quite a lot with the build process. Itz still not very clear to me yet though.. but that was a nice starting point :).
However, the damn "printk" is not working :(. I did include "(1)" with the text :
printk("(1)Hello\n").
but still nothing's been displayed. Be sure that he init funtion has been properly called during insmod; i checked that in a different way ;); but just can't get the "printk" working :s.
NOTE: the braces () above should actually be angle braces... sorry couldn't get the angle braces displayed on this page... itz considering the angle braces as HTML tags :s.
Finally i have been able to get the modules up and running :) in Kernel-2.6. Suh! they have changed quite a lot with the build process. Itz still not very clear to me yet though.. but that was a nice starting point :).
However, the damn "printk" is not working :(. I did include "(1)" with the text :
printk("(1)Hello\n").
but still nothing's been displayed. Be sure that he init funtion has been properly called during insmod; i checked that in a different way ;); but just can't get the "printk" working :s.
NOTE: the braces () above should actually be angle braces... sorry couldn't get the angle braces displayed on this page... itz considering the angle braces as HTML tags :s.
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