Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["crrey" <crrey@xxxxxxxx>]

Old kernel boot fails to find modules for 2.4.0-4gb and eth0 or sound care.
"can't find system map", no eth0, no sound, no modules listed the old
modules.conf gone, swithc2nv_glx gone after removal of 0.9-769 mod reinstall
of SuSE version 0.9-6 mods.
Yast won't let me install any sound card or nic - can't/write to
modules.conf, old kernel can't find modules conf.  modprobe can't find
modules, replace rc.config with rc.config.old and the new kernel boots, old
kernel same thing no sound, nic and can't install or load. New kernel won't
accept nv mods and edits to the files such as module.conf. etc have no
impact on the old kernel/SuSE kernel.  I follow the advice/HOWTO from SuSE
in the first place and will most likely re-install  There seems to be a lot
of thing that are assumed and that may be for an experience user.  But
novices and newbie are hard pressed to find a comprehensive walkthrough for
this process.  I do the README's and due to subsystem interdependencies I
would really like to have some thing that addresses the process from a
viewpoint of someone who doesn't have a comp sci degree.  If someone said
look for the error messages in /var/whatever logs and tell me what they say
I'd jump on it.  I just don't know what files/logs to look at to figure it
out.  I at a loss as to where to go from here.

-----Original Message-----
From: raffo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:raffo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Rafael E. Herrera
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2151
To: crrey
Cc: Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO; Mads Martin Jørgensen;
suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Support vs Support (Was: [SLE] util-linux and Kernel
2.4.3)


crrey wrote:
>
> Yep. make config, make dep, make clean, make bzImage (or bzlilo), make
> modules, make modules_install, make install, a few cp commands, run lilo,
> and viola!  And RPM's, thought those were supposed to take care of that
> stuff. At least vendor specific rpms into the same vendor specific
> distro/version.  But, heck what do I know, I'm a newbie!

A blind make config or whatever your are doing will not get you a
working kernel. Just try to get one of those mobos with VIA chipset to
work and you are for a sad reality.

There is more to updating kernel RPMs that installing them, it's all
documented in the Suse web site and posted here by me.

What did you do and what error messages did you get?

--
     Rafael