Re: Resolving module errors in 2.6

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

David Jarvie (<lists@astrojar.org.uk>) wrote:

> I have just switched to kernel 2.6.8 (hand-configured), and notice
> that there are a number of module error messages in the boot sequence.
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) What is the recommended way of setting the module configuration for
> 2.6 (is it still /etc/modutils/*, or what?)

/etc/modprobe.d

Read the modprobe.conf man page, but make sure /etc/modprobe.conf does
not exist.

> 2) Is there any way of reading the error messages afterwards -
> currently they don't seem to be stored in any of the files in
> /var/log.

Do they show up in dmesg?

best regards
 Andreas Janssen

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