Problems Building Kernel 2.4.9

[Damien Elmes]

"Donovan J. Edye" <d.edye at bigfoot.com> writes:

> M,
> 
> OK we are inching along. Matt I followed your advice and did as you
> described. However you said:
> 
> fakeroot make-kpkg --revision dje.20011002.01 binary-image
> 
> I could not find a build label binary-image. The man page seemed to indicate
> that kernel_image was the same thing so that is what I did. Installed the
> kernel and rebooted to discover (pleasantly) that I am now running the 2.4.9
> kernel. However I could not telnet in to the box which made me think that
> the modules (of which PCI NE2000 compatable is one) are not being loaded. If
> I do a "lsmod -l" I get an empty list. If I look in /lib/modules/2.4.9/* I
> can see all the .o files for the modules. However running modprobe -a
> ne2k-pci and I get an error message of Can't locate module.
> 
> I guess I am missing something small here again. Pointers (and hopefully
> amusement to the writer ;-)) appreciated.

depmod -a

if that doesn't work, your modutils are not new enough to handle the
kernel modules new directory structure, and thus you'll need to update
them

(apt-get update && apt-get install modutils)

cheers!

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Damien Elmes
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