problems with modprobe on kernel 2.4

[Timo Teräs]

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