On 25-Apr-01 Terry Collins wrote:
> Okay, I'm lost on this.
>
> I've done a new installation of RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) and it did nothing
> about the networking (local cdrom installation). So now I want to add it
> in. As I understand it, all I needed to do is insmod ne.o, but there are
> unresolved symbols (Does this mean a complete kernel rebuild?).
try
modprobe ne
as opposed to insmod. The difference is that mopdprobe will look at modules.dep
and auto-install the dependent modules (insmod won't).
> (I get a delayed initialisation on eth0 on startup).
>
>
> My thinking is that all I need to do is rebuild the modules dependancy
> stuff, but this is where I'm getting nowhere fast.
man depmod - depmod is normally run as part of boot initialization, usually
someplace in your rc.sysinit script.
> The LDP talks about rebuilding the kernel itself and ignores the
> modules, plus I can not find a clear list of the steps. The Modules mini
> is old, very old, like Redhat 4.1.
>
> at this stage, I'm thinking all I need to do is
> make modules,
> then make modules-install
> and I'm away.
if you installed the kernel rpm (which you almost certainly have), then you
should see a module tree under /lib/modules/<version #>
there should be NO necessity to recompile a RH kernel. whatever you seek is
either:
- in the kernel (unlikely, as the kernel is heavily modulized)
- module available (you might need to update modules.conf though)
- unsupported.
as for setting up your network, you might try running netconf (which will make
the necessary /etc/modules.conf entry), and then you just use network start/stop
to start the network manually (or reboot to start it at boot time).
regards,
-Greg
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