[Techtalk] 2.4.16 kernel not loading nic module at boot and sound problems

[Adric]

You're on Debian, so don't worry. <g> All you probably need to do is 
revert the shanges you made in /etc/modutils/alias (AFAIK you don't 
need that) and run modconf. In modconf you can pick which modules to 
insert at boot.  If modconf works you shouldn't need to edit the 
config files manually.

Hope that helps,
adric at adric.net



At 12:58 PM +0000 12/30/01, Rachel Andrew wrote:
>Hi
>
>I seem to be fated to have nic problems with this machine...
>
>After getting Debian (Potato) finally installed, I did a 
>dist-upgrade to testing, installed x and KDE. I have a sound card on 
>this machine (a first for me with Linux) and USB so I downloaded the 
>kernel source for 2.4.16 (I had a 2.2 kernel to start with), 
>compiled it and it booted first time with no problems other than the 
>modules didn't load.
>
>I can get the network back up again by doing
>
>modprobe 8139too
>/etc/init.d/networking restart
>
>and I added to
>/etc/modutils/aliases
>
>alias eth0 8139too
>
>which I thought would bring it up on boot, but it doesn't seem to. I 
>think I'm lacking in understanding really of how these kernel 
>modules actually work. My last Linux box had so little in it that 
>there wasn't much to get working. I still haven't got sound working 
>at all. I have a SB 128 PCI and I requested the modules from the 
>kernel which seem to be there - uart401, sb, sb_lib although, once 
>again, they don't start up on boot. starting them with modprobe 
>doesn't get the sound card working however so I'm not too sure where 
>I need to look now.
>
>Rachel
>
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