How are external kernel modules loaded?

I'm running Debian squeeze on an amd64 system and want to use the
current version (4.5) of ipset instead of version 2.5 in the
stable release.

After doing the following steps:

install ipset source from http://ipset.netfilter.org/install.html
apt-get install linux-source-2.6.32
cd /usr/src
bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32
make defconfig
make modules
cd /usr/local/src/ipset/ipset-4.5
make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32
make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32 install

I am tantalizingly close but still no cigar:

ipset -v
ipset v4.5, protocol version 4.
FATAL: Module ip_set not found.
ipset v4.5: Couldn't verify kernel module version!

The ipset modules have been installed here:

cd /lib/modules/2.6.32/extra
ip_set.ko ip_set_ipportiphash.ko
ip_set_macipmap.ko ipt_SET.ko
ip_set_iphash.ko ip_set_ipportnethash.ko
ip_set_nethash.ko ipt_set.ko
ip_set_ipmap.ko ip_set_iptree.ko ip_set_portmap.ko
ip_set_ipporthash.ko ip_set_iptreemap.ko ip_set_setlist.ko

Please tell me what's the best way to configure the system
to always find and load these modules. My web searches for
a how-to in this regard have come up empty.

Thanks,
Andris


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