On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:21:49PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:20:17AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Bernhard Reiter writes: > > > > > As a user that upgrades I run into that problem. > > > Debian has a reputation of making upgrades smooth. > > > > You are not upgrading, you are installing a new package. > > No, he is upgrading from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. I agree with Sven that, trying to get a new kernel is something I would call upgrading. My goals is to get an uptodate version of the kernel running. I have heard that support for 2.4.x kernels for ppc in Debian is phasing out, so I needed to upgrade. > That said, the real problem is probably a bug in either discover or > hotplug or whatever is used to load modules. > > Bernhard, what module discovering package have you installed ? ii discover 1.5-2 hardware identification system ii discover-data 2.2004.05.03-4 Data lists for Discover hardware detection s un discover1-data <none> (no description available) ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-8 Linux Hotplug Scripts Both have new versions available as I see now. I would have expected the kernel to have dependencies if they are needed. Next testrun I will try the new versionS of discover. Bernhard
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