Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

joy
2004-06-13T04:43:07Z

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