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List:       suse-ppc
Subject:    Re: Help with module loading
From:       Olaf Hering <olh () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-02-22 19:55:09
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On Thu, Feb 22, Even wrote:

> On 2/22/01 5:30 AM, "Rolf Schmidt" <rschmid@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Once upon a time, well, to be exact, on Donnerstag 22 Februar 2001 07:36,
> > Even struck the keys thus:
> >> I have no idea any more! it is probably easy but i can't figure this out
> >> 
> >> I have a PowerBook G3 (bronze) SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4.1
> >> 
> >> a week ago i figured that i should update the kernel from the SuSE Site. so
> >> i
> >> downloaded the rpm files and installed them.
> >> 
> >> Then, I rebooted the machine and no modules got loaded. confused and
> >> disturbed i
> >> managed to cd my way into the /lib/modules/ dir but everything was there.
> >> 
> >> I used insmod -k and everything was OK ( until next time I reboot) but in
> >> the long
> >> run manually load every module is not very fun.
> >> 
> >> So how do i get the kernel to figure out the path to the modules?
> > 
> > If you install Kernel 2.4x please also download and install the new modutils
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/modutils-2.4.1-0.ppc.rpm
> > 
> > 
> Done and installed, but I still get: modprobe :can't locate module eth0

check for the runing kernel version: `uname -r`
run `depmod -av` to create a fresh dependencies file
check modules.conf for 
alias eth0 bmac
If you have to add that line, run depmod again.

I had no problem with network modules.


Gruss Olaf

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