Bug#225370: step forward

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:42:55PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il mar, 2003-12-30 alle 12:30, Sven Luther ha scritto:
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:48:14PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > > Detecting hardware...
> [...]
> > > then is says: 'Missing modules 'sungem, usb-storage'
> > 
> > This must be the problem. 2.4.22-3 says :
> > 
> >  kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc (2.4.22-3) unstable; urgency=low
> >  .
> >    * Replaced GMAC driver by the SUNGMEM one.
> > 
> > So, instead of having GMAC builtin, SUNGEM (there is a typo in the
> > changelog) is also builtin, and not modular.
> > 
> > Ideally the powerpc-small should replace the powerpc config in some
> > future, and we should have more modular stuff, but until then, it would
> > be nice that whatever is in charge of loading modules doesn't die when
> > the stuff is builtin. This has come up before too.
> 
> I checked this, when looking at the kernel init log. There wasn't eth0
> detected, so probably it wasn't even builtin.

Mmm, probably you are using an older kernel then.

Friendly,

Sven Luther