I have no idea any more! it is probably easy but i can't figure this out I have a PowerBook G3 (bronze) SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4.1 a week ago i figured that i should update the kernel from the SuSE Site. so i downloaded the rpm files and installed them. Then, I rebooted the machine and no modules got loaded. confused and disturbed i managed to cd my way into the /lib/modules/ dir but everything was there. I used insmod -k and everything was OK ( until next time I reboot) but in the long run manually load every module is not very fun. So how do i get the kernel to figure out the path to the modules? i have attached the boot log to this message. if someone could help me i would be very grateful Regards Even Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.1 Loaded 18468 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.1. Symbols match kernel version 2.4.1. No module symbols loaded. klogd 1.3-3, log source = ksyslog started. <4>Total memory = 64MB; using 256kB for hash table (at c0380000) <4>Linux version 2.4.1 (root@PowerPC.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (rele ase)) #1 Sun Feb 11 11:56:01 GMT 2001 <6>Registered 1 feature controller(s) <6>PMU driver initialized for 1999 PowerBook G3 <6>Found Grackle (MPC106) PCI host bridge at 0x80000000. Firmware bus number: 0-

0 <4>On node 0 totalpages: 16384 <4>zone(0): 16384 pages. <4>zone(1): 0 pages. <4>zone(2): 0 pages. <4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda12 eth=/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/ne t/bmac.o <4>System has 64 possible interrupts <4>GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -480 minutes, DST: off <6>via_calibrate_decr: ticks per jiffy = 167037 (1002224 ticks) <4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25 <4>Calibrating delay loop... 801.17 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 60712k available (2020k kernel code, 1000k data, 320k init, 0k highme m) <4>Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <4>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) <5>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX <4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware <4>Fixup mem res, dev: 0.e, res_start: 80882000->80882000 <4>Fixup mem res, dev: 0.10, res_start: 80800000->80800000 <4>Fixup mem res, dev: 0.11, res_start: 81000000->81000000 <4>Fixup mem res, dev: 0.11, res_start: 80881000->80881000 <4>Fixup mem res, dev: 0.13, res_start: 80880000->80880000 <4>PCI: Resource 80882000-80882fff (f=200, d=0, p=0) <4>PCI: Resource 00000c00-00000cff (f=101, d=0, p=0) <4>PCI: Resource 80800000-8087ffff (f=200, d=0, p=0) <4>PCI: Resource 81000000-81ffffff (f=200, d=0, p=0) <4>PCI: Resource 80881000-80881fff (f=200, d=0, p=0) <4>PCI: Resource 00000c00-00000cff (f=101, d=1, p=1) <3>PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:11.0 <4>PCI: Resource 80880000-80880fff (f=200, d=1, p=1) <6>Registered "pmu" backlight controller, level: 15/15 <6>media bay 0 contains a CD-ROM drive <6>Registered 1 media-bay(s) <6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 <6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 <4>Initializing RT netlink socket <4>Starting kswapd v1.8 <6>clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.9.8 <3> Couldn't find PCI device <4>atyfb: 3D RAGE LT PRO [0x4c49 rev 0xdc] 8M SDRAM, 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 100 Mhz MCLK <6>atyfb: monitor sense=62b, mode 6 <4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 <4>fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI <3>no framebuffer address found for /pci@80000000/ATY,LTProParent@11/ATY,264LTPr oB <6>input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation <4>PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0 <4>ttyS0 at 0xc5807020 (irq = 15) is a Z8530 ESCC (cobalt modem) <4>ttyS1 at 0xc580e000 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC (IrDA) <4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured <4>block: queued sectors max/low 40149kB/13383kB, 128 slots per queue <4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 128000K size 1024 blocksize <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>pmac_ide: enabling IDE bus ID 0 <7>Registered ide 1 for media bay 0 <4>hda: FUJITSU MHH2064AT, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8171, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0xc7cfb000-0xc7cfb007,0xc7cfb160 on irq 13 <4>ide1 at 0xc7cff000-0xc7cff007,0xc7cff160 on irq 14 <4>hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 <6>hda: 12685680 sectors (6495 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=13424/15/63, (U)DMA <4>hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 <4>hdc: ATAPI 20X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>Partition check: <6> hda: [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hd a13 <6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M <7>IN from bad port 3f4 at c00b4340 <4>floppy0: no floppy controllers found <4>Trying to free free IRQ6 <6>NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 <6>loop: loaded (max 8 devices) <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <6>scsi1 : MESH <6>Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 <7>adb devices: [2]: 2 c3 [3]: 3 1 [7]: 7 1f <4>ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1 <6>Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI. <6>input1: ADB HID on ID 2:2.c3 <6>input2: ADB HID on ID 7:7.1f <4>ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 4 (trackpad) <6>input3: ADB HID on ID 3:3.01 <6>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs <6>usb.c: registered new driver hub <6>usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc5820000, IRQ 28 <6>usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0e.0, PCI device 11c1:5801 (Lucent Microelectronics) <6>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 <7>usb.c: kmalloc IF c0362740, numif 1 <7>usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 <7>usb.c: USB device number 1 default language ID 0x0 <6>Product: USB OHCI Root Hub <6>SerialNumber: c5820000 <6>hub.c: USB hub found <6>hub.c: 2 ports detected <7>hub.c: standalone hub <7>hub.c: ganged power switching <7>hub.c: global over-current protection <7>hub.c: power on to power good time: 20ms <7>hub.c: hub controller current requirement: 0mA <7>hub.c: port removable status: RR <7>hub.c: local power source is good <7>hub.c: no over-current condition exists <7>hub.c: enabling power on all ports <7>usb.c: hub driver claimed interface c0362740 <7>usb.c: call_policy add, num 1 -- no FS yet <6>usb.c: registered new driver hid <6>keybdev.c: Adding keyboard: input1 <6>mouse0: PS/2 mouse device for input3 <6>mouse1: PS/2 mouse device for input0 <6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice <6>event0: Event device for input3 <6>event1: Event device for input2 <6>event2: Event device for input1 <6>event3: Event device for input0 <6>LVM version 0.9.1_beta2 by Heinz Mauelshagen (18/01/2001) <4>lvm -- Driver successfully initialized <5>IEEE 802.2 LLC for Linux 2.1 (c) 1996 Tim Alpaerts <6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 <6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP <4>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes <4>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) <6>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM <6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. <7>hub.c: hub overcurrent change <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 320k init 4k chrp 36k prep <7>hub.c: enabling power on all ports <6>Adding Swap: 131064k swap-space (priority -1) Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped. Kernel log daemon terminating.