Cannot modprobe modules

Roxxor · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:42 am Post subject: Cannot modprobe modules

Hi!
I did an emerge sync and emerge -u update.
The resullt was that I cannot now load modules with modprobe.

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Darian · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:03 am Post subject:

Did you enable loadable module support in your kernel?
Are you using the correct version of module-init-tools?

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

I did the same thing and got the same problems

also i do have support for loadable modules

Roxxor · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject:

cram · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject:

I had this problem yesterday too, and don't ask me why this works but re-emerging module-init-tools did the trick.
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Roxxor · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:33 am Post subject:

curtis119 · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:42 am Post subject:

I experienced this as well. Remerging module-init-tools fixed it.
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October · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 5

I had the same problem today after a long-overdue kernel update and subsequent emerge world. An "emerge module-init-tools" fixed mine too. Anyone have any idea what the cause is?
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think-x · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 52 Location: UCSB

if you are upgrading from a 2.4.x kernel to a 2.6.x kernel, the new ones use a different format of modules so you need the new module-init-utils to deal with them
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October · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 5

Actually I had upgraded to 2.6 a few months ago. Until I decided to upgrade to 2.6.8, everything worked fine.
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plate · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:16 am Post subject:

Sorry lads, I just saw your thread actually predates the one I made sticky... The problem (and its solution) is identical, and I'd like you to continue discussing this here.