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Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny

Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Sun, 2010-01-24 18:05. :: Debian | Kernel

Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny

Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 01/21/2010

module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages. This tutorial shows how to use module-assistant in command-line mode and in interactive mode.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to build the ndiswrapper kernel module for Debian Lenny. The procedure is the same for any other kernel module that module-assistant knows.