microcode?

[Jeffrey Ross]

trying to run microcode_ctl however it gives me an error stating that the
module doesn't exist:

sudo /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl start
Applying Intel CPU microcode update: FATAL: Module microcode not found.
ERROR: Module microcode does not exist in /proc/modules    [FAILED]


running it by hand gives the following:

# microcode_ctl -u -f /etc/firmware/microcode.dat
microcode_ctl: writing microcode (length: 265216)
microcode_ctl: cannot open /dev/cpu/microcode for writing errno=19 (No
such device)

I confirmed that the file exists:

# ls -l /dev/cpu/microcode
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 184 Nov 17 12:15 /dev/cpu/microcode


I also insterted into /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias char-major-10-184 microcode

what am I missing?

Thanks...