From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:13:07 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40CBDB5B.7060105@sancharnet.in> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040612111803.01fd5808@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040611215205.01faf760@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040611160033.01fa0948@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040611160033.01fa0948@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040611183923.01fc9dc0@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040611215205.01faf760@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040612111803.01fd5808@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040612121108.01fc9a80@celine> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: James Miller Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org James Miller wrote: >This has all been a long-winded preface to the question: what >the heck I gotta do to get my NIC modules back to loading on boot? Am I > > Well, since you know the modules to be loaded , the quick and dirty solution would be to put a shell script in /etc/init.d which says modprobe this and modprobe that.... followed by an ifup -a (just to be sure!) I used this and works fine for me...... >gonna run into other module problems as well? What's the way to start > > That's somthing you'll have to wait and watch (I guess;-) >this process that gets the module loading routine working as it should be? >I think there was a reference to modules.dep or maybe modules.conf in that >message I saw during dist-upgrade. But there was definitely nothing there >telling me how I could manually start the process that couldn't finish >during dist-upgrade. Any pointers, please? > >Thanks, James > >PS Most of the above refers to having booted using the new kernel (2.6.6, >though some of those boots were with the old 2.6.5 kernel and one was even >with the 2.4.22 kernel). None of those were able to use eth0 and gave the >same error message during the boot process. > > possibly modules .conf was to be written on bootup or something....?. regards, Joy.M.M - 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