Guenter wrote: > Hi, > I would like to upgrade an existing PXE boot image from busybox 0.60.5 > to latest 1.13.3 for various reasons. > Now when I build latest busybox everything works fine except for > modprobe. Regardless what I configure, every time I get errors back. > Therefore I asked the maintainers of the PXE boot image, and was pointed > to a couple of patches against the 0.60.5 version, most important a > patch which enables gzipped modules like 'module.o.gz' as its often used > with Debian 2.4; I wonder if such is not already in recent busybox? > Or am I just missing some settings? > > This is the patch from 0.60.5: > http://ipcop.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ipcop/ipcop/src/patches/busybox-0.60.5-gzip.patch?revision=1.3&view=markup&pathrev=IPCOP_v1_4_21_FINAL
The insmod definitely supports gzipped modules. I think modprobe should support it too. I think it is likely a problem with the modules.dep file format they have. Could paste couple of lines from your modules.dep? - Timo _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
