Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:05:09 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: modutils for both redhat kernels and 2.5.x |
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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,
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