[Fwd: Re: [newbie]]

[John Richard Smith]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [newbie]
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:24:11 +0000
From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wouter pos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, NEWBIE 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



wouter pos wrote:

Dear john,

I have found out why my computer hangs.
I am missing a file in my /lib/modules/2.4.5
directory called modules.dep

What went wrong with my installation process?

Greetings wouter pos.

How did you find out, I'm intrigued , seems a new problem to me.

I certainly have a file ,
:/mnt/ext2-vol3/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/modules.dep

seems likely you ought to have one,

and this is a flavour of the content,

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/3c990/3c990.o.gz:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/3c990fx/3c990fx.o.gz:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/Portman_PCS/Portman_PCS.o.gz:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/acecad/acecad.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o.gz \
/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/input/input.o.gz

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/audigy/audigy.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.o.gz \
/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o.gz

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/bcm5820/bcm5820.o.gz:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/dc395x_trm/dc395x_trm.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o.gz

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/dxr3/adv717x.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o.gz

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/dxr3/bt865.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o.gz

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/3rdparty/dxr3/em8300.o.gz: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-algo-bit.o.gz \
/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o.gz

there is tons more like that.

I wonder what it does and what is going wrong,
Anyone on lit got any ideas,

Please don't hesitate,

John

John Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wouter,
I've been googling on the net with modules.dep

seems like it's a vital file, that lists module dependencies
of modules run at boot time, without one you will not get a boot.

There appears to be an association between modules.dep
and depmod + modprobe commands

man modprobe : high level handling of loadable modules.

man depmod : handles dependency descriptors for loadable
kernel modules

So the question is why has the installer not created a modules.dep for
you , but how did you get onto this,what was the sequence of events.

John

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