"FATAL: Module not found error" using modprobe

I have a problem with modprobe command... I compiled the hello world module and loaded it with insmod, it works fine and when I do lsmod, I can see it in the output list. But when I insert this module using modprobe I am getting a FATAL error:

root@okapi:/home/ravi# modprobe ./hello.ko 
FATAL: Module ./开发者_高级运维hello.ko not found.
root@okapi:/home/ravi#

Here is the module code:

#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>

MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

static int hello_init(void)
{
        printk(KERN_ALERT "Hello, world\n");
        return 0;
}
static void hello_exit(void)
{
        printk(KERN_ALERT "Goodbye, cruel world\n");
}

module_init(hello_init);
module_exit(hello_exit);

and Makefile

obj-m += hello.o

all:
        make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules

clean:
        make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) clean

The reason is that modprobe looks into /lib/modules/$(uname -r) for the modules and therefore won't work with local file path. That's one of differences between modprobe and insmod.

The best thing is to actually use the kernel makefile to install the module:

Here is are snippets to add to your Makefile

around the top add:

PWD=$(shell pwd)
VER=$(shell uname -r)
KERNEL_BUILD=/lib/modules/$(VER)/build
# Later if you want to package the module binary you can provide an INSTALL_ROOT
# INSTALL_ROOT=/tmp/install-root

around the end add:

install:
        $(MAKE) -C $(KERNEL_BUILD) M=$(PWD) \
           INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(INSTALL_ROOT) modules_install

and then you can issue

    sudo make install

this will put it either in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/

or /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/

and run depmod appropriately

i think there should be entry of your your_module.ko in /lib/modules/uname -r/modules.dep and in /lib/modules/uname -r/modules.dep.bin for "modprobe your_module" command to work

Try insmod instead of modprobe. Modprobe looks in the module directory /lib/modules/uname -r for all the modules and other files

Ensure that your network is brought down before loading module:

sudo stop networking

It helped me - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding

Insert this in your Makefile

 $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install                      

 it will install the module in the directory /lib/modules/<var>/extra/
 After make , insert module with modprobe module_name (without .ko extension)

OR

After your normal make, you copy module module_name.ko into   directory  /lib/modules/<var>/extra/

then do modprobe module_name (without .ko extension)