Hi,
   I've not had this sort of problems in the 2-3 years of using Linux,
all of it before this being Redhat. Don't get me wrong, I'm sticking
with Gentoo, but I don't understand what went wrong.

   At this point all the drivers that I seem to need are running without
errors. However, depmod is not happy about other things installed on my
system:

Wizard root # depmod -a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/atm/atmtcp.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
<SNIP>
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/net/sched/sch_teql.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o
Wizard root # 

There are  about 50 failures like this.


Here's the basic series of events as best I remember them them:

0) I tried running genkernel, but it started compiling without giving me
a chance to configure, so I Ctrl-C'ed out of it.

1) I needed USB support which was not built into my kernel.

2) I ran make xconfig to get USB turned on, but there were a lot of
things I wasn't sure about, and I had a working Redhat machine running a
2.4.21 kernel, so I copied over that .config file into /usr/src/linux.
(Could this cause this sort of problem?)

3) I built the kernel using

make dep clean bzImage install modules modules_install

After editing grub.conf and rebooting the machine now has USB support.
reemerging Alsa and xfree-dri got back the rest of what I needed,
however depmod -a fails as above.

This morning I tried moving the existing lib/modules/gentoo* directory
out of the way and ran make modules_install again, and still get the
same depmod -a failures after a reboot.

I notice that I have other gentoo-sources installed, but /usr/src/linux
is still pointing at 2.4.20-r2. Does this matter? Should I repoint to
2.4.20-r6 and build from there? Why would this matter?

gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2
gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5
gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6

Can anyone venture a guess as to what I did wrong here?

Thanks much!

Cheers,
Mark




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