wlan0 device not present FC5 x86_64 (resolved)

[Kevin Kofler]

Toad <keepertoad <at> verizon.net> writes:
> built and installed without error on both 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-x86_64 and
> 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5-x86_64 kernels.  However, modprobe refused to load the
> module, even with specific path and after running depmod -a.

* modprobe only loads modules found by depmod.
* depmod only finds modules somewhere under /lib/modules/`uname -r`
Copying the module to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc (create the directory first) 
solves that problem.
(Of course, `uname -r` refers to the version of the running kernel. But you can 
write it like that in a bash prompt and it will expand to the right thing.)

        Kevin Kofler