Well you definitely need to find out that the module dependency problems are. Try running depmod with the -e option (man depmod). Sounds like a kernel installation issue.
-- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Thursday 11 April 2002 03:36 am, Chris McKenzie wrote: > Ok, I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with about 800mb hard drive and 8mb > of ram. It useds to have netbsd on it but for various reasons I decided > to put linux on it. After much effort and frusteration I did a debian > 2.2.6 (I believe; just got it off the ftp the other day) on the laptop by > way of floppy disk. It worked ok and then I ftp'd over slackware-4.0 to > do an install of that. Why 4.0 slackware and why not debian? dselect ran > pitifully slow on this machine and I didn't want to bother learning how to > use it(it took minutes to start up, hours to actually do anything). > Furthermore, the modern linux seemed to be a hog compared to what it was a > few years ago for such a system as this laptop (although it does support > more hardware and is better designed, > I did not need the advanced features for this install). I have been using > BSD for a long time and so am familiar with more traditional methods of > installing software and managing a system. That is why I chose slackware. > I have used a lot of the distros and I have liked it the most. I put 4.0 > on because I have heard it was a good version and I didn't want to put on > a modern version because I feared it would make the system run slow. > Ok, enough justification. Here are my problems. The laptop has a > PCCARD network card which should be recognized because it is an Etherlink > clone (which one, I forget, but an extreamly old version of debian (like > from 1997 or so) recognized it on another laptop). However, an ifconfig > -a gives me: > No usable adress families found. > I was looking at the source and got deep into it and saw that I had a lot > to learn if I was going to fix it that way. I was wondering if anyone > would know how I could get it working. > I also get a slew of insmod errors with dumps of the help menu and a bunch > of /lib/modules/*'s being unresolved during bootup that mysteriously > dissappear from dmesg (maybe there is a better place for it, I'm not > familiar with this) Being that I don't know what is needed, I have tar'd > the /var/log directory on the machine and g'zipped it. Also knowing how > corrupt files can be the source of lots of frusteration, I also did a > find / -exec md5sum {} \; > allfiles and that is in the tar.gz also. > And because there seems to be no way in pine to include a file I feel that > I am forced to put it on an ftp. The IP is pretty stable and the file > will probably be accessible for at least 72 hours or so. If you can't get > it, just e-mail me or AIM me at m8525888. Anyway: > > ftp://anonymous:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/logs.tar.gz > > It won't be live for about 10 minutes -- still doing the md5sum. It'll be > there though. Thanks a lot. > > Sincerely, > Christopher J. McKenzie > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (530) 297-6110 > 609 Anderson 161 > Davis, CA _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
