The dependencies have to be up to date.  The usual symptom for the wrong
version of modutils tends to be "unresolved symbols".  Try the depmod -a
instruction and then load your modules and see what happens.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG] modprobe eth0 fails after kernel upgrade


> He's probably using an old version of modutils.  Upgrade your modutils
> package to be sure that it looks at modules.conf (conf.modules is
> depricated), and that it parses the file correctly.
>
> Jay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Johnson [mailto:Troy.A.Johnson at state.mn.us]
> > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 12:00 PM
> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] modprobe eth0 fails after kernel upgrade
> >
> >
> > Just a few more details:
> >
> > Which RPMs were installed for the kernel upgrade (list 'em)?
> > Where was 3c59x.o found?
> >
> > If I am not mistaken, "3c59x" is the name of the module, and
> > "3c59x.o" is the object file that contains this module. I
> > think the modules.conf syntax is correct, and if modprobe
> > could find the "3c59x.o" file it would load it (if it is
> > compiled for this kernel, but I think it would give you a
> > different message if that were the problem here).
> >
> > >>> bradyh at bitstream.net 04/06/01 11:37AM >>>
> > I'm using Redhat 6.0 and I upgraded my kernel to 2.2.17 using
> > Redhat's RPMs
> > but now I get a message in my log that says:
> >
> >      modprobe: can't locate module eth0
> >
> > My modules.conf file has this line:
> >
> >      alias eth0 3c59x
> >
> > I searched for the 3c59x file with no luck - though I did
> > find the 3c59x.o
> > file.
> > What should I do?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brady
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