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Did you remake the modules when you installed the kernel? Some such as |
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nvidia, alsa require you rerun their installation process. |
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On Sunday April 30 2006 14:18, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> This should be an easy fix -- if you already know! |
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> The reason many of my modules are not loading is |
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> because modprobe is looking in /lib/modules/2.6.12-r6 |
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> and not /lib/modules/2.6.16-r3 which was filled when I |
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> ran make modules_install. |
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> The link to the newer kernel is OK. |
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> Yes, I ran modules-update. |
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> Also, module loading and unloading options are set=y |
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> in kernel. |
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> Not a clue as to why some modules load, sound, usb; |
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> and some, firewire, ppp, forcedeth don't. |
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> dmesg is filled with lines like: |
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> |
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> Unknown symbol < >...disagrees about version of |
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> symbol< > ... |
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> At the end of the boot console it says: |
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> /usr/sbin/pppd/: Couldn't stat /dev/ttyS0: Too many |
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> levels of symbolic links. |
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> But according to emerge -pv udev I have the latest |
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> ver. Which I set up according to the gentoo |
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> udev-guide. |
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> Attempts to specify the proper dir to modprobe result |
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> in no-such-file errors. |
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> |
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> -mw |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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