From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emmanuel Guiton Subject: Re: problem when loading ip_tables - solved. Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:43:55 +0200 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <4062A9DB.4050803@netlab.hut.fi> References: <4061BEA7.80800@netlab.hut.fi> Reply-To: emmanuel@netlab.hut.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Hi! The problem was the interdependance I mentioned earlier. I had included the header file of my module in the ip_conntrack_standalone.c which caused the ip_conntrack module to depend on my module which depends on ip_conntrack. Thanks you Henrik for the clue about modules.dep! Bye, Emmanuel Emmanuel Guiton wrote: > > hi! > > Thanks for your suggestion, but I guess it may not be the problem. > When I recompiled the kernel, I did it from scratch icluding make dep. > So it should be up to date. However how can I ensure it? > However, looking at modules.dep i noticed that I have a module A that > depends on a module B that itself depend on A. Can this > interdependance be a problem? > > Emmanuel > > > > Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Emmanuel Guiton wrote: >> >> >> >>> insmod: ip_tables: no module by that name found >>> >>> while the module ip_tables.o exists. insmod finds without problem >>> the other modules like for example ipt_REDIRECT, ip_conntrack, >>> iptable_nat... >>> >> >> >> >> Probably your modules.dep is not up to date. >> >> Regards >> Henrik >> >> > > >