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Topic: modules missing in ROM

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Hi there,

perhaps it's just too late today, and/or I spent already too much time on this, but I've got a problem with compiling the OpenWRT:

I'm using an ASUS WL-500g.
At first I tried the latest snapshot, it worked fine (I flashed from the original firmware to the snapshot with the windows tool from ASUS).

But now I want to include the modules needed to run a USB-stick. So I did a CVS-checkout, and said "make". The compiler runs through happily.

Now I took the kernel.config from this post http://www.openwrt.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=460 and copied it to sources/openwrt/kernel/kernel.config , said "make clean" and "make" again.
Afterwards I have the .trx-file again, but if I flash it, the USB-Modules are not in the /lib/modules/2.4.20/ directory, although I can find all these modules somewhere in the build_mipsel directory.

I'm sure this is addressed somewhere, but could anyone point me to the right place to look? Why aren't the modules in the ROM-file?


thanx in advance,
Harry

Hi Obsidian,

I'm sure this is addressed somewhere, but could anyone point me to the right place to look? Why aren't the modules in the ROM-file?

Because your config use modular USB support

#
# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=m

You should find your USB modules in the openwrt-kmodules.tar.bz2 archive.

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Nico

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