From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:30:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:30:03 -0500 Received: from esteel10.client.dti.net ([209.73.14.10]:37931 "EHLO nynews01.e-steel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:29:56 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Newsgroups: e-steel.mailing-lists.linux.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Modules not being found with 2.4.0 on a 486 based box Date: 23 Jan 2001 18:29:51 -0500 Organization: e-STEEL Netops news server Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3A6E128D.7C436455@pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shookay.e-steel X-Trace: nynews01.e-steel.com 980292495 7250 192.168.3.43 (23 Jan 2001 23:28:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nynews01.e-steel.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jan 2001 23:28:15 GMT To: gnuman0@pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You need to install a recent version of modutils (at least 2.4.0) because the directory structure changed as you noticed it and the new modutils are able to deal with that. gnuman0@pacbell.net (C Sanjayan Rosenmund) writes: > Please cc: me as well, as I'm on to many lists as is. . . > > Irecently built 2.4.0 on two diferent x486 PCs and neither of them > recognised the new module directory structure found in the 2.4.x > kernels. I did not have this problem on the Pentium and better > machines that I built this same kernel on. I got around the problem > by making a symlink from where the module actually was > (/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/net/) to where the system was > looking for it (/lib/modules/2.4.0/net/) and all is well. . .for now. > I was wondering if there was any light that could be shed on why this > might happen? I have only found this to be a problem on 486s, > everything bigger has worked fine. Details below: > Feature Working Not Wotking > Processor Pentium + 486 (486DX2-66, 486DX-50) > Distrobution Debian unstable Debian stable (unstable caused other > problems) > RAM 16Mb + 16Mb + > Hdd size 1Gb + 540Mb + > Modules involved Any network cards (that is all I was using) > > More info can be provided if needed. This is low priority, I was > wondering if you had any ideas why (or how to get around it, other > than my solution). > > Thank you all for your time, and for producing a kernel that is worth > all this work . -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/