Re: modules not found after kernel recompile
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:15:29PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsæther wrote:
>
> Hi guys, and thanks for all your help so far!
>
> Observations:
>
> - I misspelled moudule-init-tools as modutils-init-tools.
> Sorry! Did all file searches by correct name, though.
>
> - module-init-tools was installed BEFORE kernel recompile
>
> - A non-initrd kernel image was made
>
> - Documentation/post-halloween-2.6.txt
> does not exist in my kernel source tree
> (downloaded directly from www.kernel.org)
>
> - I upgraded module-init-tools to last available version
> (now: 3.1-pre5) after kernel recompile (was 3.1-pre2)
>
> - I also did an 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade'
> after recompile (could have been smart to do before?)
>
> - There is no modprobe.conf anywhere on my system,
> just the manpage for it and a demo script called
> generate-modprobe.conf.gz in doc/module-init-tools/ex..
Reading the info with the 3.1 module-init-tools this seems to be okay.
Apparently modprobe.conf is *no longer* require (was with 3.0).
>
> - Modules are found in correct location,that is:
> /lib/modules/2.6.71, which corresponds to the output
> of 'uname -r'
Is this a typo? or are you using kernel 2.6.7 with an append-to-version
of 1? I would recommend you use "-" (hyphen) before numeric
append-to-version so the kernel version does not look wrong (i.e. there
is no kernel 2.6.71).
That said, I don't think this is your problem (since you say it matches
`uname -r`).
What are the first errors you get and the text above them?
>
> - The file modules.dep in that directory looks OK.
>
> _ I have removed modutils as suggested, since I am
> now running a 2.6 kernel anyway.
>
> - There's a modules.conf.old in /etc, but no modules.conf.
> AFAIK I didn't rename it...so a script must have.
> So moving entries from modules.conf (nonexisting)
> into modprobe.conf (also nonexisting) or into the
> modprobe.d directory (how? by copying them to the alias file,
> which is already there, and contains - from what I can see -
> about the same things?), confuses me a tad.
>
> - Getting a bit weary of this... :-\
>
> Ideas, anyone? Do I have to go back to W*nd*ws?
I hope not :-)
> Does things really have to be this convoluted?
Maybe it helps to remember with W*nd*ws you wouldn't even have the
choice to compile your own kernel, or try the latest and greatest from
the developers.
>
> Thanks for input!
>
> best regards,
>
> Inge Thorin Eidsæther
> blackwings NOSPAM at NOSPAM inbox dot com
Sorry I'm not more help -- I'm not up-to-date with the latest versions
of things, and unfortunately I can't bring my play-around computer down
right now to see what has changed.
Hopefully others will have better input.
--
Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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