Install error. Trying to debug

[PVTRAN]

Laptop model

Raider GE78 HX 13VG

EC firmware version

E17S2IMS.113

Description

This was all that I was given from the console. I've check that my EC firmware is compatible but wasn't able to, I suspect it's the current distro I am using

sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/extra
cp msi-ec.ko /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/extra
cp: cannot stat 'msi-ec.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:33: install] Error 1

[glpnk]

use

sudo make dkms-install

[PVTRAN]

dkms doesn't work under this distro

[glpnk]

Manually find and remove

msi-ec.ko

from somewhere in here

 /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/

and place new module to

 /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/extra

by using this from build dir and reboot after

sudo cp msi-ec.ko /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/extra

But better find how to get dkms, bc this method is shit

[teackot]

Installing this on an immutable distro might be a problem... it can't install the module because the root filesystem is immutable.

I think the only way to properly install it would be to build an RPM package and install it as an overlay. Or you can also make a systemd service that runs insmod /patn/to/msi-ec.ko, as a hack

[glpnk]

@teackot's method with service is interesting, but before inserting module you need to remove built-in.

modprobe -r msi-ec

and

insmod /patn/to/msi-ec.ko

Your model already supported, maybe you need to add new version

[PVTRAN]

So, from what's I had been trying, I forgot to report even before using make install. make itself hasn't been able to build in Bazzite as it is an immutable distro. So I am stuck in a weird, hard place.

make[1]: Entering directory '/var/home/UserName/msi-ec'
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/home/UserName/msi-ec'
make: *** [Makefile:13: modules] Error 2

As /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/build folder itself doesn't really exist, I have no Idea how to access it or where It is.

I also tried to use a different distro temporarily to build myself a msi-ec.ko but unable to move it anywhere due to limitation.
As /lib/modules/6.11.9-303.bazzite.fc41.x86_64/extra is locked as read-only with sudo. I have no idea if using a different Distro to build and use it on Bazzite will work, but it was just for testing purposes.

But I haven't really tried turning it into a service yet, if you have any documentation I can read on. I can try. Slowly.

Much appreciated for your support.

[glpnk]

You need to obtain kernel headers and build tools first

You can't build module on Debian and run on Bazzite, for example, until you use same kernel binary