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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:37:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130315073705.GA5883@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130315070701.GA5737@waltdnes.org>

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:07:01AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote

>   It was actually modutils that was masked out and replaced with
> modutils.  This had not kicked in yet on the install image I was using
> on the netbook.  I had to unmerge virtual/modutils and modutils, then I
> was able to emerge kmod.  Both kernel 3.5.7 and 3.7.10 built and
> "make modules_install" worked.  E.g...
> 
> [aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] make modules_install
>   INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko
>   INSTALL drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
>   DEPMOD  3.7.10-gentoo
> 
>   Thanks again.

  For anybody who's reading this thread... you *MUST* use the "tools"
flag with kmod in order to get basic stuff like a man page, lsmod, etc.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-15  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14  2:47 [gentoo-user] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files Walter Dnes
2013-03-14 21:14 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-14 21:30   ` Paul Hartman
2013-03-15  7:07     ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2013-03-15  7:37       ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2013-03-15  9:33         ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-15 21:23           ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-15 21:50             ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-15 21:58             ` Alan McKinnon

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