Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread joy
James Miller wrote: This has all been a long-winded preface to the question: what the heck I gotta do to get my NIC modules back to loading on boot? Am I Well, since you know the modules to be loaded , the quick and dirty solution would be to put a shell script in /etc/init.d which says modp

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:36 PM 6/12/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote: Well, I took your advice and dist-upgraded Ray. Now I know why I was not very anxious to do it :). A problem occured with kernel modules during the dist-upgrade. From memory, it was something like the new modules couldn't be configured until after

net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
Well, I took your advice and dist-upgraded Ray. Now I know why I was not very anxious to do it :). A problem occured with kernel modules during the dist-upgrade. From memory, it was something like the new modules couldn't be configured until after the system was rebooted: somehow the fact that t

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > in the kernel) called /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug . You might want to run > /sbin/hotplug from the command line to see what its output is. No output. Doesn't generate any error report or anything. Just returns to the root command prompt (ran it as root,

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:04 PM 6/12/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > This is a symlink to a script (in /etc/init.d). The next step (after the > one you suggest) is to read the script and see what it does ... most > likely, what kernel module(s) it installs. That should isola

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > This is a symlink to a script (in /etc/init.d). The next step (after the > one you suggest) is to read the script and see what it does ... most > likely, what kernel module(s) it installs. That should isolate the > conflicting item (daemon, kernel module

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
Well, I don't know if I can claim to have resolved my problems or not - I guess you'll have to be the judge of that. But the display is back to working normally with the 2.6.5 kernel and I seem to have usb (at least my multi-reader) working as well. So, here's what I've done. I changed NoS15usbm

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:20 AM 6/12/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote: This is all a bit beyond me, Ray. But, taking your advice again, I looked in /etc/modules - nothing there referring to usb. Then, I looked in /etc/rc2.d: there, I found S15usbmgr which I changed to NoS15usbmgr. Rebooted with the 2.6.5 kernel, issue

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, chuck gelm wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > This is all a bit beyond me, Ray. But, taking your advice again, I looked > > in /etc/modules - nothing there referring to usb. Then, I looked in > > I am wondering if that ATI video card is in hotplug's default > blacklist. ??

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread chuck gelm
James Miller wrote: This is all a bit beyond me, Ray. But, taking your advice again, I looked in /etc/modules - nothing there referring to usb. Then, I looked in /etc/rc2.d: there, I found S15usbmgr which I changed to NoS15usbmgr. Rebooted with the 2.6.5 kernel, issued startx - same system hang r

Re: Debian Sid startup problems

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
This is all a bit beyond me, Ray. But, taking your advice again, I looked in /etc/modules - nothing there referring to usb. Then, I looked in /etc/rc2.d: there, I found S15usbmgr which I changed to NoS15usbmgr. Rebooted with the 2.6.5 kernel, issued startx - same system hang requiring a telnet se