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I am trying to install this module: https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call
I did a make, make install.
I then saw acpi_call.ko is in /lib/modules/4.3.3-5-default/extra/.
When I do a
modprobe acpi_call
I get
modprobe: FATAL: Module acpi_call not found in directory /lib/modules/4.3.3-5-default
Tried putting acpi_call.ko in /lib/modules/4.3.3-5-default but got the same result.
I would like to make it persistent so that when I reboot, module is loaded. I think it's possible only with modprobe.
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In order to insert a new module into the kernel, execute the modprobe command with the module name. Following example loads vmhgfs module to Linux kernel on Ubuntu. Once a module is loaded, verify it using lsmod command as shown below. The module files are with .
Use the modprobe command to add or remove modules on Linux. The command works intelligently and adds any dependent modules automatically. The kernel uses modprobe to request modules. The modprobe command searches through the standard installed module directories to find the necessary drivers.
modprobe looks in the module directory /lib/modules/`uname -r` for all the modules and other files, except for the optional configuration files in the /etc/modprobe.
If the module .ko file is really under /lib/modules/4.3.3-5-default/extra/ and 4.3.3-5-default is indeed your current kernel version, then the problem may simply be that you need to run depmod to re-create the module dependency list. Run:
sudo depmod and try again to modprobe the module.
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My solution is unique, but in my system I rebuilt the kernel and took out a module. I installed the vendors module and could not get the system to boot using the vendors module. In my case I forgot to move all the /lib/modules info, so modules.builtin still had the module, that I was upgrading. Manually removing the module from modules.builtin and doing the depmod -a fixed my problem.
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