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I've made some sort of bone headed change to my 10.2 system this morning. I'm using the precompiled 2.6n kernel from disk 2. I was making some changes to the network modules in rc.module to comment out ndiswrapper and load 8139too. The goal was to just use the hard wire for a bit while upgrading to current.
Unfortunately, now when I boot, *none* of my modules are loading. lsmod shows just ext3 for the hard drive.
I'm guessing I've broken a link somewhere and I don't know what to "relink".
Did you install the "kernel-modules" package alongside the kernel-generic" package? Did you break the rc.modules script by editing it? Did you disable hotplug by accident?
Did you install the "kernel-modules" package alongside the kernel-generic" package? Did you break the rc.modules script by editing it? Did you disable hotplug by accident?
I suspect the answer is yes to question 2. When I run hotplug even by hand it seems to have no effect.
I went to a backup of the rc.modules file I saved, but this also doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I've been hamfisted, but it's not obvious to me as I look at this.
Check that the 'rc.modules' is good. Sometimes when module packages are installed 'rc.modules' is simply a 'symlink' to the 'real file' which might be something like 'rc.modules-2.6.xx'. The link might be broken.
Good suggestion. It is a symlink to 2.6.13. The file and link appears to be ok. The file exists and the same data is is displayed if I cat the link or the actual file.
Yes, there's a link to the source from there. I'm going to try to re-install the source and modules from the 10.2 disk 2. Maybe that will repair my mistake.
I went back to the 10.2 disk and re-installed the kernel, modules and header files. This seemed to have fixed whatever it was that was broken, but for the life of me, I don't know what the issue was.
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