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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:37:34
Message-Id: 20130315073705.GA5883@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files by Walter Dnes
1 On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:07:01AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
2
3 > It was actually modutils that was masked out and replaced with
4 > modutils. This had not kicked in yet on the install image I was using
5 > on the netbook. I had to unmerge virtual/modutils and modutils, then I
6 > was able to emerge kmod. Both kernel 3.5.7 and 3.7.10 built and
7 > "make modules_install" worked. E.g...
8 >
9 > [aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] make modules_install
10 > INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko
11 > INSTALL drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
12 > DEPMOD 3.7.10-gentoo
13 >
14 > Thanks again.
15
16 For anybody who's reading this thread... you *MUST* use the "tools"
17 flag with kmod in order to get basic stuff like a man page, lsmod, etc.
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20 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
21 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>