[Techtalk] Kernel modules problem--Help! Anyone!

[bsweeney]

Beth,

Let me prompt this by saying I have no clue what's wrong, but I'm 
figuring if I ask some questions the answers might shed some light.  So 
here goes:

1) When you installed the kernel, I assume you used the RPM?  Did you 
use up2date?  if not, did you rpm -U for upgrade or just -i for install?
2) Did you happen to install their debugging kernel as well?
3) Did you install the kernel-source package as well?
4) Are you positive the upgrade went through; ie, have you uname -a to 
make sure it's running 2.4.9-21?  Do you have a /lib/modules/2.4.9-21 
directory?
5) Can you try running the mkinitrd with the -v flag to see if that 
gives more information?
6) Can you run modprobe -c and modprobe -l to check your configuration?
7) Any other weird problems with the system?  Errors in the logs 
(hardware, etc)?

I'm baffled by this.  The only time I've seen an error of "No module 
blah found for kernel bleh" is when I tried mkinitrd on a system where 
the drivers for the scsi card were not compiled as modules (doh).   
Insmod itself I don't believe functions as a module at all, and in any 
case mkinitrd is only supposed to attempt to load block devices modules 
(IDE, SCSI, etc.).  Is there anything funny perhaps in your 
/etc/modules.conf file (I think anything that's in there will show up 
with the modprobe -c command above)?

I suppose as a temporary workaround you could rebuild a custom kernel 
with everything you needed compiled directly in instead of using modules.  

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. :(

-Brian


Beth E. Johnson wrote:

>Responding to my own message with more information; if no one responds
>I'm faced with a rebuild.  I've got no sound, no cdrom, no vfat
>support.  I'm grateful eth works!  Here's what I did first:
>
>><sigh> I updated my RH 7.1 kernel to the newest RH version (2.4.9-21)
>>and appear to have lost the ability to insert my modules.
>>
>>When I try to mkinitrd for the new kernel I get:
>>
>>No module insmod found for kernel 2.4.9-21
>>
>>Can someone tell me what to check?
>>
>
>Anyway, I did an xconfig to try and install a custom kernel and did
>
>make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage
>
>and still get the message that I'm missing insmod for the kernel.  
>
>I have the latest modutils installed, 2.4.10-something.  What do I need
>to look for?
>
>Humble TIA,
>Beth
>