Thanks to Mark Post, Malcolm Beattie and Jon R. Doyle my problem is solved. I ran "depmod -a 2.4.19" and I rebooted successfully.
Thomas L. Geyer Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(330) 471-2073 Fax:(330) 471-4034 -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network Problems with new kernel.... Geyer, Thomas L. writes: > I am running SLES7 under zVM 4.3 using a Guest Lan. The current kernel is > 2.4.7. I have built kermel 2.4.19, when I reboot with the new kernel I see > the folloowing errors: > > Initializing random number generator 7 [80C [10D [1;32mdone > [m" > [m" > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth0 modprobe looks for a module or alias called "eth0", looks up its module dependencies and then tries to load it/them. Check whether you have a line alias eth0 qeth in /etc/modules.conf or else modprobe won't even look for qeth. Since you later say it works for an earlier kernel, I guess this isn't then problem. [...] > When I logon onto the virtual machine through the TN3270, I see (using the > lsmod command) that the qdio.o and qeth.o modules have not been loaded. I > then use the insmod command to load qdio.o and qeth.o followed by ifconfig > and route command to get the Linux virtual machine on the network. If you are using insmod on qdio then qeth then you are resolving the module dependencies yourself. I suspect if you tried "modprobe qeth" (without loading qdio) then you might run into the same problem. The table of module dependencies is per-kernel-version-tree. You'll need to run a depmod -a to rebuild the dependencies for a new kernel. You may need to fiddle with explicit options to depmod to ensure you build the dependencies for the right kernel and put them in the right place. Look at the man page for depmod for details. Often, distributions will run an automatic depmod sometime during boot. This normally removes the need to do a manual depmod but equally makes it easy to forget when one *does* need to do one. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Technical Consultant IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group... ...from home, speaking only for myself ********************************************************************** This message and any attachments are intended for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not forward, copy, print, use or disclose this communication to others; also please notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete it from your system. The Timken Company **********************************************************************
