topic Loadable Modules in Operating System - Linux

Loadable Modules

Nobody's Hero — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:34:34 GMT

A while back Huc replied:"lsmod not returning anything ? do you have loadable modules support to yes in your kernel config file ?CONFIG_MODULES=Y"*******************************************My QuestionWhere is my kernel config file, so I can check to see if CONFIG_MODULES=Y is there?

Re: Loadable Modules

Mark Grant — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:35:57 GMT

depends on you distro but it is normally /usr/src/linux. Here you would do a grep on the .config file as in

grep CONFIG_MODULES .config

Re: Loadable Modules

Huc_1 — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:58:37 GMT

Glad to see I am read !

on my system last config of last compile is in
/usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/

and a

grep "CONFIG_MODULES" /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.20-athlon.config

gives

CONFIG_MODULES=y

if this is not to yes then you will need to compile a new kernel

J-P

Re: Loadable Modules

Martin P.J. Zinser — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:52:12 GMT

If you do not have build your own custom kernel the probability of a kernal without support for
loadable modules is actually very low.

To actually check what is configured in your kernel as a module try

grep =m .config