Modules aren't recognized :(

[GhostlySpectre]

I have recompiled my kernel(2.6.12.3). I made it where all the sound stuff became Modules because ALSA required it. Here's what I did: 1.Selected Modules for all sound stuff I needed. 2. Compiled it. 3. It shows CC [M] yadayada/snd.o (& the same for others). 4. Replace old Kernel image with new one. 5. restart computer 6. boot up Linux 4. type alsaconf and it says

Could not find module: snd

. Yet I did compile the module. So why does it do this any help?

[ihayhurst]

Not sure about 2.6 (I used to do all my kernel compilation with 2.4) but a fairly essential step after make modules was make modules-install

Cheers Ian

[ihayhurst]

err that'll be make modules_install

[GhostlySpectre]

It installed them but they weren't recognized.
Before I installed 2.6.12.3, I had 2.6.11.
I think it is not searching the 2.6.12.3 directory in /lib/modules.
So how do I get to actually look for the modules?

[ihayhurst]

had that with an older kernel... that turned to be modutils that needed updating, worth a search incase it's that again

Ian

[GhostlySpectre]

I got it to do it perfectly yesterday.

I booted up my Gentoo CD and mounted 'n chrooted my root partition.
I then cd to to the 2.6.12.3 kernel directory.
Used Menuconfig
typed:

make && make modules_install

Copied the bzImage and .map to /boot.
typed:

/sbin/lilo

Rebooted

It starts up and recognized the kernel version 2.6.12.3 instead of 2.6.11.
The modules were all recognized!