modprobe errors I cannot fix

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

I just upgraded to 2.4.0 test9 kernel and got this error:

lilypad modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14

I then made sure that /etc/modutils/aliases contained this:

alias char-major-14     off

I ran update-modules, but still I get the modprobe error.
Have I done something incorrect?

thanks

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Andrew