Not using modified module

[ahuguet at cttc.es]

> Maybe if I run:
>> 1) make -C /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17 SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules
>> 2) make -C /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17 SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules_install
>> 3) depmod -ae
>
> while being in
> /lib/modules/2.6.17.14-ubuntu1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap the
> resulting module files would overwrite the old ones?

No, this did not work, and it did not have to, since pwd has then changed,
and stops making sense.

So, how to tell Linux to load the modules on extra folder, without having
to manually copy them each time I recompile?

Thanks.