[yocto] No '/lib/modules' directory in image, modprobe fails

[Todd Efflam]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 11, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Todd Efflam <todd.efflam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > We're trying to load and unload modules using modprobe but are having
> problems.  The command fails with "modprobe: can't change directory to
> '/lib/modules': no such file or directory".  There is actually no
> /lib/modules directory on the image at all.  We tried to install the
> linux-libc-headers package but it failed and I think the reason is we are
> using the 3.14 kernel and the package is 3.19.  Any help would be
> appreciated!
>
> linux-libc-headers is kernel APIs for userland. The modules are generated
> as individual packages during kernel build. You can choose which modules
> you want to package
> default it none. if you want all default modules to be included in image
> you can add
>
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules”
>
> to you machine.conf
>
> Otherwise if you know which ones your system needs then you can add it to
> IMAGE_INSTALL individually.
>
> IMAGE_INSTALL += "kernel-module-<name-of-module>”
>
>
>
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Thank you this fixed the problem!

-Todd
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