Probably the easiest thing to do would be to boot from the install CD,
select expert and update, choose to install nothing and let the
installer do its stuff.  Should put things back as they should be
without touching any of your data.

Brian

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:55, Ira M. Bargon III wrote:
> My /etc/modules.conf file has somehow been corrupted. My machine boots but with many 
>errors. I am running Mandrake 8.1 on a Athlon 600mhz machine. I just installed 8.1 
>over Christmas break and everything went well and it worked fine. I haven't used the 
>Linux side of my machine lately and when I booted it the other day it started giving 
>me many errors about my modules.conf file and different modules it was loading. I can 
>not specify what it says in the logs because its the same machine as im using now and 
>the Linux side has no network access due to these errors. The only thing that I have 
>changed since its worked and it not working is I swapped my network card. The first 
>time I booted Linux after that swap of nics hardrake came up and told it to remove 
>the old configuration and configure the new card then I said migrate my network 
>settings to this new card. Once I did that the machine locked up and since then I 
>have been getting the modules.conf errors. Any suggestions on h!
ow to fix this? I don't have a clue and any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Ira 



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