Thank you very much; it turned out depmod -a was all I needed, the 
directory in question having been created when I compiled the asi-hpi 
driver.


Rob

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Wayne Merricks wrote:

> I've just been doing this myself under Squeeze.  Thankfully Debian works
> without moaning about Kernel Taint like Ubuntu.  There were a couple of
> small gotchas in the setup.  The first being /lib/modules/2.etc/extra
> directory doesn't actually exist so you need to create that before make
> install.
>
> After that run depmod -a.  Then you can modprobe gpio and it all seems to
> work.
>
> Please note Debian and Ubuntu include the Comedi GPIO libraries and I'm
> not entirely sure how well these work together, I know that with Ubuntu I
> was trying to blacklist the Comedi modules before I finally gave up on the
> GPIO driver under Ubuntu.
>
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:35:42 +0100, Rob Landry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've just tried to install gpio-1.1.0 under Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Per the
>> instructions, I run:
>>
>> ./configure
>>
>> make
>>
>> make install
>>
>> Everything appears to work. I get no error messages. But there's no
>> /etc/init.d/gpio file.
>>
>> There is a /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/extra/gpio.ko, but I can't find any
>> way to start it.
>>
>> The last time I compiled a gpio driver was in 2007. None of the machines
>> I've built since then has included a Measurement Computing card until
>> now.
>>
>> It's late. I'll take a look again in the moerning. maybe I've done
>> something stupid.
>>
>>
>> Rob
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