Re: Resolving module errors in 2.6

[David Jarvie <lists@astrojar.org.uk>]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:05, Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net> wrote:
> David Jarvie(lists@astrojar.org.uk) is reported to have said:
> > From the errors which I'm getting about modules not being found, it looks 
as 
> > if modules configured in /etc/modutils/ (which is for my 2.4.22 kernel) 
are 
> > attempting to load, despite the fact that I'm now running a 2.6.8 kernel. 
I 
> > thought that a 2.6 kernel used /etc/modprobe.d/ instead, and would 
> > ignore /etc/modutils/.
> > 
> > I want to keep /etc/modutils/ for now so that I have the option of using 
the 
> > 2.4 kernel. How can I get the 2.6 kernel to ignore it?
> 
> I may have missed it, do you have the module-init-tools package
> installed?  It is required for kernels 2.6.
> 
> >From apt-cache show module-init-tools
>  This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and
>  removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above). It
>  serves the same function that the "modutils" package serves for Linux
>  2.4.

Yes, module-init-tools (current Sarge version) is installed.

Cheers,
David.