On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:58:26PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm tryng to build a machien this weekend to see if I can use testing. I need > largefile support, and that appaears to be the best way to get, but I also > need a > machine thats reliable enough for production work. > > In any case, I installed "stable" on this machine and all went well. It has an > Intel Etherxpress Pro 100 NIC in it, which requires the eepro module to be > loaded. > > I do this during install, and it is installed "permanently" such that when I > reboot > the machine it's reloaded. > > However after changing apt sources to point at "testing", and upgradeing this > module was not laoded. So I reinstalled "stable" and I'm looking around to > see how > this is doen, so that I reproduce the setup afer upgradeing again.
what happened when you upgraded is that /etc/modules got replaced (and in your case, eepro100 was listed there). When you install, the program that configures modules writes the modules you want in /etc/modules, but during upgrade it seems like you told dpkg to replace that file, thus loosing the changes. just put "eepro100" in /etc/modules after upgrading, or don't tell dpkg to replace the file, or use the "alias" feature (much cleaner) explained in previous emails. good luck Alberto.
