In detail, the attached Makefile works for kernels 2.6.5 and below. But when running a newer kernel (2.6.8 or 2.6.10) then compilation and installation via insmod works fine. But unfortunately the name which is depicted by lsmod is: KBUILD_MODNAME. The Makefile calls the script "modpost" which is kernel specific. Furthermore, I tried to figure out what the script "modpost" is doing in detail but ... So I wonder what the script is doing and if the script might produce the error. Thanks for helping regards Andreas ifndef MODULE MODULE = fctrl fidran EXEC = fman generic endif ifndef KERNELDIR KERNELDIR = /usr/src/linux endif GCC = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DEXPORT_SYMTAB \ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs\ -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 \ -march=`uname -m` -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer ifdef CONFIG_SMP GCC += -D__SMP__ -DSMP endif ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS GCC += -DMODVERSIONS -include $(KERNELDIR)/include/linux/modversions.h endif INCLUDE = -I$(KERNELDIR) \ -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include \ -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/asm-i386/mach-default \ -I. -I.. ifeq ($(KERNELDIR)/.config,$(wildcard $(KERNELDIR))/.config) include $(KERNELDIR)/.config endif compile: $(MODULE:=.o) $(EXEC) .c.o: @echo making $(<:.c=.ko) @gcc $(GCC) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(<:.c=) -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(<:.c=) $(INCLUDE) -c -o $(<:.c=.o) $< @/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/scripts/modpost $(<:.c=.o) @gcc $(GCC) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(<:.c=) $(INCLUDE) -c -o $(<:.c=.mod.o) $(<:.c=.mod.c) @ld -r -o $(<:.c=.ko) $(<:.c=.o) $(<:.c=.mod.o) @rm -f $(<:.c=.o) $(<:.c=.mod.*) $(MODULE:=.ko): @echo making $@ @gcc $(GCC) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(@:.ko=) -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(@:.ko=) $(INCLUDE) -c -o $(@:.ko=.o) $(@:.ko=.c) @/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/scripts/modpost $(@:.ko=.o) @gcc $(GCC) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(@:.ko=) $(INCLUDE) -c -o $(@:.ko=.mod.o) $(@:.ko=.mod.c) @ld -r -o $@ $(@:.ko=.o) $(@:.ko=.mod.o) @rm -f $(@:.ko=.o) $(@:.ko=.mod.*) $(MODULE): @echo making $(@:=.ko) @gcc $(GCC) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$@ -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$@ $(INCLUDE) -c -o $(@:=.o) $(@:=.c) @/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/scripts/modpost $(@:=.o) @gcc $(GCC) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$@ $(INCLUDE) -c -o $(@:=.mod.o) $(@:=.mod.c) @ld -r -o $(@:=.ko) $(@:=.o) $(@:=.mod.o) @rm -f $(@:=.o) $(@:=.mod.*) $(EXEC): @echo making $@ @gcc -o $@ $(@:=.c) clean: @rm -f *~ depend core *.o *.ko *.mod.* fman generic -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/