On 6/7/06, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:40:54PM +1000, Nick Withers wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:28:09 +0100
> Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make
> > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/,
> > but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules.
>
> From kldload's man page:
> ________
>
> FILES
> /boot/kernel directory containing loadable modules.
> Modules must have an extension of .ko.
> ________
>
> This having been said, it _does_ look in /boot/modules as well.
>
> I'm able to load a module from either directory without
> specifying the full path and / or extension and without either
> directory being my current working directory on 6.1-RELEASE.
>
> What's the problem you're actually having? What version of
> FreeBSD are you running?
Yes, sorry, that wasn't the most infomational email.
FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE.
me ~ # ls -1 /boot/kernel
fire_saver.ko
if_tun.ko
ipfw.ko
kernel
libiconv.ko
libmchain.ko
linker.hints
linux.ko
smbfs.ko
me ~ # ls -1 /boot/kernel
nvidia.ko
linker.hints
me ~ # kldload smbfs
kldload: can't load smbfs: No such file or directory
me ~ # cp /boot/kernel/{smbfs.ko,libiconv.ko,libmchain.ko} /boot/modules/
me ~ # kldload smbfs
<short pause>
me ~ # kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 12 0xc0400000 3c68c4 kernel
2 2 0xc07c7000 1f280 linux.ko
3 1 0xc07e7000 3f2e00 nvidia.ko
6 1 0xc50e0000 20000 smbfs.ko
7 2 0xc4f51000 4000 libiconv.ko
8 2 0xc4154000 3000 libmchain.ko
Do you know if they ever fix crypto bug in mount_smbfs in FreeBSD 6.1?
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