Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package

[Topher Fischer]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Topher Fischer wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:09 -0700, Topher Fischer wrote:
>>>  
>>>>   I'm assuming that kernel packages I listed, the debug kernel that
>>>> Dave
>>>> listed, and your xen kernel are separate packages and might be
>>>> different.  Am I making a bad assumption?  I was hoping somebody using
>>>> the same kernel package that I am could verify.
>>>>     
>>> They are all based off the same source.  Here's a stock kernel package:
>>>
>>> [jwboyer at vader ~]$ sudo /sbin/modinfo hdaps
>>> filename:      
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko
>>> license:        GPL v2
>>> description:    IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver
>>> author:         Robert Love
>>> srcversion:     1C5A2654C3D15545ECF46D0
>>> depends:        vermagic:       2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 SMP mod_unload 686
>>> REGPARM 4KSTACKS parm:           invert:invert data along each axis
>>> (bool)
>>>
>>> josh
>>>
>>>   
>> Thank you for clearing that up.  I'm still confused why I don't have it
>> on my system.  I don't think it's interesting enough for anybody else to
>> worry about, but then again, I don't really have a good idea about what
>> constitutes "interesting."  Here's what I see:
>>
>> [root at virgil javert42]# uname -r
>> 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
>> [root at virgil javert42]# modinfo hdaps
>> modinfo: could not find module hdaps
>>
>> I also get nothing when I grep my kernel package for hdaps:
>>
>> [root at virgil javert42]# rpm -ql kernel | grep hdaps
>>
>> Again, thanks for the input.  Thomas also answered a separate question
>> that I had.
>
> Just a guess, but maybe you have i586 kernels installed instead of i686?
>
> See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common to check on that...
>
> --jarod
That was it.

Again, thanks for all the input.

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Topher Fischer
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