How do I configure modprobe to find my module?

Question

I\'m trying to get a kernel module to load at boot.

If I run insmod /path/to/module.ko, it works fine. But this has to be repeated every time I reboot.<

Answer 1

You can make a symbolic link of your module to the standard path, so depmod will see it and you'll be able load it as any other module.

sudo ln -s /path/to/module.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe module

If you add the module name to /etc/modules it will be loaded any time you boot.

Anyway I think that the proper configuration is to copy the module to the standard paths.

Answer 2

I think the key is to copy the module to the standard paths.

Once that is done, modprobe only accepts the module name, so leave off the path and ".ko" extension.

Answer 3

Follow following steps:

1. Copy hello.ko to /lib/modules/'uname-r'/misc/
2. Add misc/hello.ko entry in /lib/modules/'uname-r'/modules.dep
3. sudo depmod
4. sudo modprobe hello

modprobe will check modules.dep file for any dependency.