Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:22, dircha wrote:
> > Bingo! Running "lsmod" in the working vs non-working config shows
> > that a whole bunch of drivers are no longer being loaded after the
> > dist-upgrade. Running modprobe to force the network drivers to be
> > loaded restores network connectivity.
> >
> > So the question now is: why did dist-upgrade from testing to unstable
> > mess around with the list of modules that are loaded at boot time?
> > That's sort of a rhetorical question; I don't hugely care as I now
> > have a working system [at least I can manually force the necessary
> > drivers to be loaded on boot]. But presumably other people will be
> > bitten by this too...
Just for the record: I did a dist-upgrade today and rebooted, and all
the appropriate modules are now loading automatically. Whatever the
problem was, it seems to have been fixed in the latest unstable.
Dircha: thanks for the additional info on modutils.
Regards,
Simon
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