I certainly did read the manual, but according to the programs on SUSE
7.1 the only thing I needed to upgrade was modutils.  I am going to do
more searching around the manuals and the suse site before I attempt
this again.  I would like to keep a working system, for a few days
anyway.



Net Llama wrote:
> 
> Always, always, always read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes before
> doing anything.  modutils is rarely the only thing that needs to be
> upgraded to get a working kernel.
> 
> --- Marianne Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I tried doing this on the weekend.  I figured from the documentation
> > that I only needed to update mod-utils.  Did that and compiled the new
> > kernel which loaded just fine, but alot of the modules wouldn't work.
> >
> >
> > I bet this is related to my other problem.  Since the error messages
> > (there were many) were that various hardware in modules.conf couldn't
> > be
> > found.  Couldn't find or load the module for my network card.  So had
> > to
> > re-install.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this experience?
> 
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