Re: modutils for both redhat kernels and 2.5.x

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:11:00AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> Doesn't it?  When I upgraded from 2.5.45 to 2.5.48, and installed
> module-init-tools-0.7, a whole bunch of modules failed to load
> automatically, and I ended up with no pcmcia, no network, no
> af_packet, no loopback device...  I had to load them all manually.
> Also no USB, hence no USB keyboard and mouse, but I haven't tried
> loading those manually.
> 
> I thought it was depmod not working, but I must have been wrong.
> 
> So what happened - is there a known problem with module auto-loading
> at the moment?

Yes it is.  The hotplug package looks for the modules.*map files to
determine which modules to load when the devices show up.  As these are
not being generated anymore, that's why they are not getting loaded.

thanks,

greg k-h