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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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