Something went wrong - modules not found

[smukec]

I was living a fairly unstressfull life (at least regarding my linux box). I run (was running) a gentoo 1.4 on kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r6. Everything was working and I was happy.

Then, I found that OO 1.1.1 is in portage. Immediatelly I run 'emerge openoffice'. Unfortunatelly I run out of disk space. Then I moved all except OO from /usr/portage/distfiles to another machine and deleted files in /var/tmp/portage. With that I gained enough space to compile OO.

After that I noticed that the printer (trough CUPS) failed to print - actually failed ghostscript(library libgmodule-1.2.so.0 was not found). emerge ghostscript solved the issue.
I wanted also to make my palm T3 working. On the pilot-ling.org found that kernel 2.4.21 is required. Think that this was my bigest mistake - emerge kernel(probably I should run emerge source). While waiting I found out that usbserial is not running and followed some how-to that compiled only modules in /src/linux/serial. Modprobe complained that /etc/modules.conf is newer than /lib/modules/... (writing by memory from other machine).
Everything was still working. After a shutdown/powerup it was obvious during the init procedure that something is very wrong: first it failed to load sk98lin for my net-card, the next unsuccsesfull was alsa, after that everything was red.

I tought it would be the best to do emerge kernel-2.4.20, but at this time, without a working net-card, the portage and the internet were far away of my reachable scope.

I'm stuck now!

[smukec]

I managed somehow to boot the system with networking(alsa and some other stuff still dead).

I emerged sources with kernel 2.4.25. The problem is know (beside lost old .config file due using make mrproper) that make menuconfig disables DEVFS at each save. I also can't find them in the menu structure. I have to manually enable them after each menuconfig.

[EdSchouten]

NOFI, but your story sounds like this:

http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/414177e6cd89e6/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382e353c32f94c336ad168aed55/ellen_feiss_m480.mov

[Vulpes_Vulpes]

[smukec]

Your last sentence is the major cause of all this problems, Vulpes.

I'll retry with your proposal and let you know.