[CentOS] modprobe :: not finding existing .ko

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Adrian Sevcenco
<Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi! I try to load an module that it is found in curent
> /lib/modules/`uname -r` tree ...
> root at sevcenco: ~ # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-*
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14296 Mar 16 19:37
> /lib/modules/2.6.38-0.el5.elrepo/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.ko
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10808 Mar 16 19:37
> /lib/modules/2.6.38-0.el5.elrepo/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko
>
> but if i try :
> root at sevcenco: ~ # modprobe -v padlock-aes.ko
> FATAL: Module padlock_aes.ko not found.

When using the modprobe command, you need to omit the ".ko" part.

Akemi