can't install kernel modules
 

So I just installed Slackware 12.1 kernel huge-smp.s(or something like that) on my laptop and on my dvd the modules for that kernel are corrupt so they didn't install. I downloaded them from a Slackware repository and installed them using pkgtool, but I don't know what to do next. I rebooted and ran lsmod but it still didn't show any modules.

Thanks.

If the modules still didn't load, and you are sure they installed properly (check /var/log/packages), then you probably installed the wrong module package. The kernel and module packages much match exactly; using the non-SMP modules on a SMP kernel won't work, for instance.

Did you check the MD5 checksum for the download and the burn? Could be a bad download or a bad burn.

I checked and they have been installed. They are the exact kind and I downloaded it again from a different repository and it did the same thing.

MD5 checksum? Sorry, not familiar with that.

It's understandable that you were not familiar with MD5 checksums at the time. Now that you've heard of them, spending a few minutes looking them up with a search engine/wikipedia/whatever would be a logical next step.

You use them to check whether a download completed successfully or got corrupted.

sorry,sorry, I know, I was very tired at the time.

I checked it and the package is fine.

ignore the last post I made. I didn't really know how to work md5sum, but I figured it out and the download was bad. I got it from a different repository and everything works great.

Thanks everybody