Re: tlug: kernel problem

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> 1) I reconfig'd a new kernel with modules using "make menuconfig" and the
> 2.0.34-0.6 (what is -0.6?) which came with the RH5.1 cd's.  Then I 'make

I _love_ RH ......

> modules', 'make modules_install', 'make dep', 'make clean', 'make bzlilo'.

OK.

> But, when I boot the kernel says "can't find ....modules.dep", so I

Oh, oh.....do you always run "depmod -a" when booting up. This is
the utlity that creates the
"/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/modules.dep" file. You can also
run it from the command line. This should fix this problem.

> suppose that all of my modules don't load.  Yet, I selected PLIP as a

THAT certainly not. It just says that automatic chain loading
using modprobe or the kerneld doesn't work if a module to be
loaded requires another one to be loaded beforehands.

> module and in the boot-up output it seems to load just fine...

Evidently.

> 2) Also, I tried to "make menuconfig" a 2.0.35 kernel which I d/l'd off of
> PHT (not blaming them) from their sunsite mirror, but it said that it
> couldn't find 'curses.h'.  How is it that the 2.0.34 kernel menuconfig
> could, but 2.0.35 couldn't find this?

Obvious. Apparently the library makeup differs between RH and
PHT. Enter the directory "/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog" and
do a "make clean all". That should fix it.

> 3) Also, since I haven't been able to get the RH sound configuration
> program to recognize my sound card at all, I suppose that it probably
> because I am loading it as a module and my modules aren't loading...right?

More to the point: because chain loading doesn't work.

Actually, this is the BIG problem of RH: it is full of little
modifications and configuration bugs that make it run in
principle, but with those little nasty surprises constantly
popping up. This is why I stick to Slackware: this sure is not
the most advanced distribution, but it has extremely few bugs
and thus causes the least trouble in everyday use.

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