On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:29:56AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > This weekend, I installed sarge from a distribution CD > and the network on to a new old system which had previously never > had Linux. The kernel was 2.4.27-2 and I needed to upgrade that > to 2.6.5 which is what I run on a couple of other Linux boxes. > > This 2.6.5 kernel has a number of modules for audio and > various things and those modules all make without a problem. > After doing "make modules_install," I got /lib/modules/2.6.5 > and depmod gave me modules.dep in that directory along with the > subdirectories for all the modules. What I didn't get is a new > /etc/modules. I am probably looking in the wrong place, but I > can't even find much documentation as to how that file actually > gets there. The file, itself, has comments at the top which are > the same wording found in the man page as to what it is used for, > etc. As an experiment, I renamed /etc/modules to something else > and the new kernel complained about the missing /etc/modules file > so 2.6.5 kernels do need /etc/modules. The time stamp on the > existing file dates back to the time I installed Debian on the > system which was Saturday. The modules and directories in > /lib/modules all show a time stamp consistant with the time I > said "make modules_install." What am I not doing to make a > complete setup for the new kernel? > > Thanks. > Hi Martin, There are various things that determine what modules are loaded at boot time: - its compiled into the kernel - its included in /etc/modules - its loaded by a program like 'discover' - its loaded by udev From my recollection, I just added the name of whatever kernel modules I needed to the /etc/modules file whenever a module was not being loaded. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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