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Re: Modules problems



On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, James W. Lynch wrote:

> I don't know why I keep trying to use modules, they never work right
> for me....
> 
> I trashed my 1.2.13 system on my home box and installed 2.0.2?.  Dselect
> didn't work, so I did a manual job with dpkg.  I installed the kernel
> source and compiled it fine.  Did the make modules and make module_install
> and everything seemed to have gone on OK, but when I boot I get the
> error message "no dependancy information for XXX module".  And, of course
> the modules don't install.  I have to do a manual install to make things
> work.  What is wrong?

You probably just need to run "depmod -a" to register the dependency
information. I'm not sure why it isn't getting run for you, I build my
kernels from Linus's source and never seem to have a problem.

Hope this helps,

Dwarf

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