Hello,
I have just now installed RedHat Linux 8.0 on my system. It has the Real Tek RTL-8139, SMC EZ Card.
After ifup eth0, it gave the message,
modprobe:Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep(No such file or directory)
The same message appeared even at the time of booting.
Please help me come out of this problem!
To fix it, you first need to find out why it is occurring.
After boot/init is finished, log in as root and check by hand for the "missing" file. Is there a directory named "/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/"? If not, then most likely something went wrong during install (or, in the unlikely event that you compiled your own kernel, you forgot to do "make modules_install").
If the directory is present, does it contain a file named "modules.dep"? If not, see if running "depmod" from the command line fixes the problem.
If both directory and file are present, then the problem is *probably* that the modprobe occurs in the "wrong" place in the init sequence (I'm assuming here that the "ifup eth0" is in an init script, not something you are doing by hand after boot/init). Offhand, I cannot think of why that might occur ... this is such an odd possibility, I cannot even think of what additional information to ask you for, should it be the case.
Finally ... 2.2.14 is a very old Linux kernel ... it is not even an up-to-date 2.2.x. Distros do still use these old 2.2.x kernels for their install disks (Debian does, anyway, and I'm not really surprised that an older Red Hat does too). But they are not really meant for production systems. You should look into installing via rpm whatever 2.4.x Linux kernel is currently available in Red Hat ... either just install the pre-made image or compile a custom kernel locally, as you prefer. This may be the real solution to your problem.
BTW, the advice someone else posted was wrong in one detail. If modprobe is not finding modules.dep, then attempting "/sbin/modprobe 8139too" is pointless. Instead, try "/sbin/insmod 8139too", since insmod does NOT handle dependency issues so will not look for modules.dep . It may fail too (if, for example, the module itself is not present), but at least it will fail for a different reason.
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