Quote Originally Posted by arkaine23
One of the install alternatives lets you compile the modules outside your kernel source tree (i.e. you don't need to recompile your kernel, you only need its sources) and then install them in the right place. This is how ALSA/nvidia's binary drivers/etc work.

Maybe scripts a la FabianX could do this....
Until now, I still don't know how these binary only module works. I have tried to use the config file of KNOPPIX using supposely the same source tree but the modules are not compatible. I tried to diff the System.map and they are all different.