insmod.old/lsmod.old etc probs

[Piers Kittel <debian@biased.org>]

Hello all,

I think it's related to me trying out the 2.6 kernel a while ago and 
giving up and going back to the 2.4 kernel, I don't remember exactly 
when it occured, but it was several months ago, but when it happened, I 
couldn't do any module management, always got complaints that <command 
name>.old didn't exist - I did the dirty and nasty thing and softlinked 
<command name>.old to <command name> - not a good idea I know, but it 
generally works.  But occasionally it doesn't work, such as the nvidia 
driver refusing to insert the module in the kernel (strange as it 
normally works just fine until now) as it got a warning that insmod.old 
isn't really insmod.old ("WARNING: insmod.old: I am not the old 
version!") and I'd like to fix it properly and how do I do that?

Thanks very much for your help in advance

Cheers - Piers