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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@freya.yggdrasil.com>
Subject: Re: modutils for both redhat kernels and 2.5.x
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:05:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021126030509.GA27006@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021126021100.GB29814@bjl1.asuk.net>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-26  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-25  0:31 sean darcy
2002-11-25 23:59 ` Ricky Beam
2002-11-26  0:56   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-26  2:11     ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-26  3:05       ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-11-26  4:41       ` Rusty Russell
2002-12-19 22:57       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-26  4:44     ` Ricky Beam
2002-11-26  5:04       ` Bill Beebe
2002-11-26  7:38       ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-27  7:36     ` Kees Bakker
2002-11-27  3:22 sean darcy
2002-11-27  3:55 ` Stephen Rothwell

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