kernel modules

Timothy Payne tim at tmpco.com
Sun Dec 19 03:00:23 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 02:38 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 19.12.2004 schrieb g.tilghman at cox.net um 2:19:
> 
> > I must not have something configured, even when i su and put in my password and I am in root, lsmod and insmod
> > and the like still say command not found.  They are THERE!  I went to /sbin and they are all there.  Aparently I dont
> > have the kernel configured to load modules.
> 
> > Gregg
> 
> How did you configure your kernel to not load modules? I just wonder.
> 
> If you are root and in /sbin directory calling a binary in there will
> not work. Because parent directory is not in root's path.
> To load modules use modprobe and not insmod.
> 
> Alexander
> 
As Alexander harshly pointed out to me you must use su - root could that
be the problem?  BTW I'll never forget it.

Alexander are you German born and raised?  Just curious if you want to
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