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5.1.3: Utilities for managing kernel modules.

Please regard the following not that much as a recommendation, but as a hint what I am using. If you have modules utilities installed (you probably have) and they work fine for you, then there is no need to install another version. I didn't try the most recent modutils package yet. `2.1.34' isn't the most recent.

In principle, new versions of the modules utilities should be able to insert modules into older kernels. Please read also the file [/usr/src/linux/]Documentation/modules.txt

and the documentation that comes with the set of modules utilities you are using.

You can down-load the modules utilities from the same places as the kernel sources. This used to be ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/linux/ but http://www.kernel.org/ is the primary site nowadays.

WARNING: Don't use `modutils-2.1.23.tar.gz'. It seems that the depmod program contained in this package produces wrong dependencies. This program seems to hold the view that the ftape module depends on itself being loaded before itself which causes modprobe to try to load ftape before loading ftape before loading ftape before loading ftape before loading ftape ... until this infinite recursion causes modprobe to abort with a core dump due to a segmentation violation.

The following is out of date

`modutils-2.1.34.tar.gz' worked fine for me. With this version it was even possible to insert ftape compiled without CONFIG_MODVERSIONS into a 2.0.30 kernel that had been configured for use with versioned symbols. I suggest that you solve module insertion problem by using a recent version of the modutils package. See CONFIG_MODVERSIONS. I have tried the 2.1.34 version of the modutils package with a 2.0.30 kernel and it works just fine.

There is a more recent modutils package that I haven't tried.

For the time being, new versions of the modutils package seems to show up first at This doesn't seem to be true anymore

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/alphabits/

You should check this location if you can't fetch the latest `modutils' package from another site.


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