"hello world" driver for SUSE

[coder98765]

hello everybody

i'm new in drivers developing so i'm tring to make simplest module

at link below i have find such sample
LinuxDevCenter.com -- /dev/hello_world: A Simple Introduction to Device Drivers under Linux

after first make it take about hour, i try to load module by
>>insmod ./hello_printk.ko
i get
>>insmod: can't read './hello_printk.ko' : No such file or directory

make command again give "up to date" message

i can't find where kernel put my module

i'm using SUSE 9.1 on vmware

can anybody help me compile and load/unload that simple module

thank you for your help

[coder98765]

the same result i get from first sample from

"Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition
By Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Alessandro Rubini " book