Building kernel modules on Edgy (with the default Ubuntu kernel)

[ben darby]

* Nils Br?nggel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to build a simple hello world module accodring to this. [1]
> However it did not work for me for some reason. (I never built kernel
> external modules before) The question is how can I build this on Edgy,
> with the Edgy default kernel, which souce packages do I need (are the
> kernel headers enough) and how would a working makefile look?
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
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> [1] http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/x121.html

Nils, from a stock edgy install you just need to install
linux-headers-`uname -r`

the makefile is provided for you on the next page of that guide put it
in the file Makefile and run make then sudo insmod ./hello-1.ko


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ben darby