Trying to locate module source

Bill Marcum bmarcum at iglou.com
Fri Jan 27 00:06:29 UTC 2006


On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:16:05 -0600, Hugh Winkler 
  <hughw at wellstorm.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for the sources for the atmel at76503 drivers.
>
> I did this to find the package for the module binary:
>
> dpkg --search at76c503.ko
>
> (lsmod had indicated that module is loaded) and dpkg says that file is
> in the kernel package linux-image-2.6.12-10-386.
>
> So then I did
>
> apt-get source linux-image-2.6.12-10-386
>
To get the source for the kernel, apt-get linux-source-2.6.12-10-386.
But the module is in the linux-image package, so you might not need the 
source, unless you want to compile the driver into the kernel instead 
of a module.


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