Re: modutils for both redhat kernels and 2.5.x

[Rusty Russell]

In message <[e-mail]> you write:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Depmod no longer exists.
> > 
> > This is true.  It doesn't need to for 0.7, but it's being reintroduced
> > in 0.8 for speed.
> 
> 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.

Probably barfing on unimplemented modprobe options.  That's worked
around in the (coming) 0.8.

> 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?

Should just work.  Details?

Rusty.
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