kernel build issue

[Gregory Nowak]

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This isn't a problem. Under 2.6.x, modules now have a .ko extension
rather then a .o extension. To fix the problems you're having, you
want to do 

modprobe modulename

, instead of

modprobe modulename.o

, which is what you should have been doing under 2.4.x anyway.

Greg


On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:53:21AM -0500, tony seth wrote:
> While we're on the jubject, I have a kernel question too.  I'm 
> currently running slackware 10.1 and a 2.4 kernel. I rolled my own 2.6 
> kernel, and although it mostly went as it should, all my modules seem 
> to have a .ko extention rather then the .o extention, and so, for 
> example when my sound card loads I get an error that the version is 
> incorrect.  How do I fix this, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, or 
> forgetting something obvious, but can't think what it is...
> I tried it before and got everything to work before, but don't know I 
> did differently. Any help appreciated... thanks much.
> Cheereo!
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