On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:29:01PM +0000, maart wrote: > Hai all. > This is my first ever post to a newsgroup, so please forgive me if I do/say > something weird... > > I use potato, and have been trying the 2.4test-kernels for a couple of > weeks. > > I have trouble using modules that I compile with the kernel. Whenever I > compile a kernel that uses modules I type : make dep clean bzImage modules > modules_install. I think this should work. > > When this works, however, I think there should be some file called > 'modules.dep' in the /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/. This file is present, > however: it is empty. All the modules seem to have been made, and installed > in the right place, but this modules.dep file, that I guess is needed to > load modules with modprobe, is completely empty. Run `depmod -a' as root once you complete the above steps. This is supposed to happen on reboot; at least that's how the boot scripts used to work. <blatant plug> You should install and use the package "kernel-package" to build your kernels ... it's quite slick </blatant plug> -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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