Re: Can't find modules - but they work
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, esper@sherohman.org wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:10:40AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> On boot up I get messages relating to several modules eg
>>
>> lp modprobe can't locate module lp.....
>> ppp modprobe can't locate module ppp
>
> When you rebuilt your kernel, you built these things into the kernel
> instead of keeping them as external modules, but modules.conf didn't
> get told about it, so your system is still trying to load the modules
> it no longer needs. I just ignore it, but you should be able to get
> rid of the messages by updating the files in /etc/modutils/ and then
> running update-modules.
Great! Many thanks for this - its been puzzling me for some time. Can I
add another question - how _should_ modules.conf be told about it?
Glyn
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