lsmod

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Henderson" <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com>
To: <busybox at busybox.net>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 5:57 PM
Subject: lsmod


> Sorry to bombard the mailing list with so many questions...  I've run
> into another issue.  I'm attempting to get networking going on my
> distro, but came across a strange situation.  I tried checking what
> hardware was being detected so I ran busybox's lspci which gave ID's and
> classes along with numbers instead of written descriptions so I can't
> tell what is what.  Is this typical behavior for busybox's lspci?  I
> then tried to see which modules were installed (lsmod), but got no
> output, just another prompt.  Surely I have to have some drivers
> installed!  I then tried to load the e1000e driver for the NIC (which
> was verified in an existing distro that fully works).  Trying to "insmod
> e1000e" resulted in "insmod: can't read 'e1000e': No such file or
> directory".  And trying to "modprobe e1000e" produced "modprobe:
> 'kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko.gz': invalid module format."
> However, that module does in fact exist and it's for the kernel taken
> from a working distro with the driver located under
> /lib/modules/*kernel*/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e.  Any ideas?
>
> Dave

insmod need full path and does not support compressed module.

The fact that you had ''kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko.gz' show that
/lib/modules/*kernel*/modules.dep is available

'invalid module format' is only in modprobe-small code.
Probably select the complete modprobe to have compressed module support.
That's what I use and that work.

Gilles