Making Mercury dotpup. Where do I install a kernel module?
Posted: Tue 30 Aug 2005, 03:56
I am preparing a DotPup to install Mercury, a MSN mesenger with videoconference capabilities.
To allow the videoconference I am also preparint a DotPup to install the spca5xx kernel drivers.
I have it all working in my computer loading the spca5xx drivers at boot. I added the following lines to the rc.local
I am doing the mkdir and cp because with a liveCD the /lib/modules/... is lost after each reboot, so for now I just left the spca5xx.o in /root.
Is there another standard location in Puppy where depmod should be looking at?
Is there a way to make modules.dep permanent?
To allow the videoconference I am also preparint a DotPup to install the spca5xx kernel drivers.
I have it all working in my computer loading the spca5xx drivers at boot. I added the following lines to the rc.local
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if [ ! -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o ] ; then
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb
cp /root/spca5xx.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
fi
depmod
modprobe videodev
modprobe spca5xx
Is there another standard location in Puppy where depmod should be looking at?
Is there a way to make modules.dep permanent?