From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: whitnl73@juno.com Subject: Re: Network card and kernel module problems Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:52:57 -0500 (EST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030204.180710.8.0.whitnl73@juno.com> References: <000301c2cb7d$184dd620$eb6510ac@citechbd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <000301c2cb7d$184dd620$eb6510ac@citechbd.com> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: raihan@citech-bd.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Amin wrote: > I'm beginning to think I've mixed up different kernel module dependencies. > The short story is I need help sorting out the modules for use with my two > kernels: 2.4.18-14 and 2.4.18-14custom. The long story is: when I > originally installed RH8.0 and found it didn't already support my NIC, I > recompiled the kernel with > > make xconfig; make dep; make modules; make modules_install; make bzImage > > and tried to boot the new kernel. Eventually I got it to boot, but it > failed to detect/insert a lot of modules, which seems strange in > retrospect because I think I actually specified only one loadable module; > all the others were built-in. I recompiled again, with the same results. If you didn't change EXTRAVERSION in the Makefile, you will have the leftover modules from the modular kernel in /lib/modules/`uname -r` but they will not be able to load with the kernel that has them builtin. I'd use a unique EXTRAVERSION for each new custom configuration. When you get it right you can remove all the false starts. > A lot of error messages courtesy of depmod as it tries to find module > dependencies --- things like input.o, soundcore.o, etc. I've recompiled > twice after that, with a slightly different command order: > > make xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install > > But still I get the same module dependency problems during boot. Help! > > Yawar Amin > Lawson -- ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs