Re: modprobe failed: no /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "David" == David Karlin <dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu> writes:

    David> I have installed potato on an old machine.  I'm trying to reconfigure
    David> the modules so that the ethernet card will work.  When I run depmod,
    David> I get the following message:

    David> depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep for writing

    David> So I do "cd /lib/modules" and "ls" and get:

    David> 2.2.15

    David> "unmame -a" tells me that I'm running 2.2.14-5.0.

    David> I don't understand why I have /lib/modules/2.2.15, and not 
    David> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0, although it explains why when I do
    David> "modprobe ne io=0x300" I get:

    David> modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

    David> I tried "ln -s 2.2.15 2.2.14-5.0" and reran "modprobe ne io=0x300" and
    David> get a bunch of unresolved symbol messages....

    David> Anyone have a clue on this?

 The modules for the kernel you are running are apparentl *not*
 installed.  You get the unresolved symbol errors because the modules
 that are there do not correctly match the running kernel.

 Did you build the kernel yourself?  If so, then go back to the
 kernel-source directory, and run:

 # make modules && make modules_install

 Make sure you remove that symlink you made *first*, then run the
 `depmod -a' again, and see if everything just works after that.


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