Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:28:46 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Richard Jones" <freebsd@jonze.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> Subject: Re: Kernel module path Message-ID: <ef10de9a0606071028t725e475fsdd78e5666f46a80f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060607125519.GA62057@dogstar.jonze.com> References: <20060607102809.GA61343@dogstar.jonze.com> <20060607224054.09545db8.nick@nickwithers.com> <20060607125519.GA62057@dogstar.jonze.com>
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On 6/7/06, Richard Jones <freebsd@jonze.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:40:54PM +1000, Nick Withers wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:28:09 +0100
> > Richard Jones <richard@jonze.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make
> > > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/,
> > > but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules.
> >
> > From kldload's man page:
> > ________
> >
> > FILES
> > /boot/kernel directory containing loadable modules.
> > Modules must have an extension of .ko.
> > ________
> >
> > This having been said, it _does_ look in /boot/modules as well.
> >
> > I'm able to load a module from either directory without
> > specifying the full path and / or extension and without either
> > directory being my current working directory on 6.1-RELEASE.
> >
> > What's the problem you're actually having? What version of
> > FreeBSD are you running?
>
> Yes, sorry, that wasn't the most infomational email.
>
> FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE.
>
> me ~ # ls -1 /boot/kernel
> fire_saver.ko
> if_tun.ko
> ipfw.ko
> kernel
> libiconv.ko
> libmchain.ko
> linker.hints
> linux.ko
> smbfs.ko
> me ~ # ls -1 /boot/kernel
> nvidia.ko
> linker.hints
> me ~ # kldload smbfs
> kldload: can't load smbfs: No such file or directory
> me ~ # cp /boot/kernel/{smbfs.ko,libiconv.ko,libmchain.ko} /boot/modules/
> me ~ # kldload smbfs
> <short pause>
> me ~ # kldstat
> Id Refs Address Size Name
> 1 12 0xc0400000 3c68c4 kernel
> 2 2 0xc07c7000 1f280 linux.ko
> 3 1 0xc07e7000 3f2e00 nvidia.ko
> 6 1 0xc50e0000 20000 smbfs.ko
> 7 2 0xc4f51000 4000 libiconv.ko
> 8 2 0xc4154000 3000 libmchain.ko
>
Do you know if they ever fix crypto bug in mount_smbfs in FreeBSD 6.1?
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