lsmod shows only two modules

desertViking · 04-22-2006, 11:49 AM

Hi,

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".

Any advice?

Kind regards,

desertViking

Alien Bob · 04-22-2006, 11:55 AM

Some questions that come to mind,

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?

Eric

desertViking · 04-22-2006, 12:04 PM

Quote:

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.

Code:

/sbin/modprobe lp

for example also says it can't find the module.

What could I have done to the rc.modules file?

Thx for the consideration.

Alien Bob · 04-22-2006, 12:06 PM

Another question: did you run "lilo" after installing that new kernel?

Eric

desertViking · 04-22-2006, 12:10 PM

Hi Eric,

I've been using the 2.6.13 kernel for awhile without any difficulty. This is just something that started this morning when I modified the rc files.

I confess to being a grub user, not lilo. Sorry ;->

desertViking · 04-22-2006, 12:24 PM

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.

I also rebooted to the 2.4 image just fine.

Toods · 04-22-2006, 12:28 PM

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.

desertViking · 04-22-2006, 12:34 PM

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.

Alien_Hominid · 04-23-2006, 01:36 AM

Look if you have /lib/modules/kernel-version.

desertViking · 04-23-2006, 09:55 AM

Greetings,

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.

desertViking · 04-24-2006, 09:44 AM

Hi, Just a note to close this discussion.

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.

Working ok now.

Thx for considering my question.