Newbie needing help.

[Paul and Allison Riola]

I have already rebuilt my kernel, adding support for the 
prism 2.4 chipset,  and I began
the installation of the hostap driver; however, the modprobe 
won't recognize
hostap_pci.0.  Does the module need to be loaded during a 
rebuild, and if so  how do you
rebuild a kernel to support prebuilt modules? I tried placing 
the file in the

/lib/modules/..... manually, but that did not work.  How do I 
get the kernel  to
recognize this module?  I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thank you
Paul Riola