Hi..


I have been running slackware -current for some time and have found that i have problems with VMWare loading with hi mem support with the 2.4.19 kernel supplied with Slackware.. no biggie.. i recompiled my kernel with the 2.4.20 kernel i downloaded from kernel.org, but when i reboot none of my modules work.. if i do modprobe ide-scsi it says module not found, if i do modprobe tulip it says not found


when i recompiled my kernel i used this command:

make menuconfig - to configure my kernel for himem/sound/etc

make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install


what's the problem? Why would none of my modules work (besides the nVidia drivers that have to compile into the running kernel, those work fine, and i got ide-scsi to work by making it a part of the kernel, so i can access cdroms, etc... but still.. nothing loads unless it's compiled into the kernel.. no modules work besides nvidia.. what do i need to do?)

Thanks!

Possible reasons:
1) Modules were not copied to the right directory in /lib (maybe you forgot to run make modules_install as root?). Look if you can find them.
2) You forgot to choose the modules when configuring the kernel, unlikely.

I will re-run make modules and make modules_install.. but most everything is installed in the kernel, so i might not even need the ones that were there before.. i guess the older kernels did not have support for built in scsi so they used ide-scsi.. i dunno.. my sys works fine.. don't get me wrong.. it's just -very- strange to see lsmod empty (exept nVidia). But hey.. if it works, then i guess there i no reason to complain...


wait.. that's not true...

cdrecord -scanbus tells me it can't find /dev/pg*

but if i do ls /dev/pg* i see the dev entries.. i guess i should try to re-install cdrecord because i will need it to burn cd's.

When everything is compiled into the kernel, it may be that there are no modules loaded. No problem, then.

I wouldn't expect to see your tulip driver as s module if you compiled it into the Kernel.According to the howto, though, ide-scsi needs to be compiled as a module, and has dependencies that must be modules as well. See the CD_burning HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html for details.

Wht happens if you modprobe ide-scsi?

Freaksta...I believe this is why lsmod is empty, thus the answer to your question.

You are correct.. after reviewing my kernel i found that all my modules were loaded at included.


Thanks for the info, it was a little wierd finding everything i needed already in the kernel.

thanks again.