Arch Linux

Dregel

Member

Registered: 2007-01-28

Posts: 32

can't modprobe

Hello!

I recently installed ArchLinux after growing tierd of the slow development of Slackware, so im not realy a newbie to linux but in all the years of slackware use i have never realy played around with modprobe
Well to the problem then:

I installed Arch 0.7.2 (Gimmick) and got my networkcard working so i could run a

pacman -Syu

then, after i reboot the system had been upgraded to Arch 0.8 (Voodoo) "Kewl!" is my frist thought but ohhh no!

I soon noticed that my usb keyboard dident start-up so i pluged in a regular one to try to load the usb module but when i ran modprobethis is the output i get:

FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.dep: no such file or directory

So apearantly, when i upgraded my system pacman upgraded from kernel 2.6.16 to 2.6.19 but modprobe still wants to get its modules from 2.6.16, so what i need help with is making modprobe understand that it needs to look in the new kernel for modules.

Thanks in advance!

dongiovanni

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-10-06

Posts: 110

Re: can't modprobe

You could try a "depmod"...

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: can't modprobe

Do you use lilo? If so, did you ran 'lilo' after updating your kernel?

no24

Member

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 62

Re: can't modprobe

i have a similar issue and dont use lilo. depmod gives the same error.

Billy Anachronism

Member

Registered: 2004-11-16

Posts: 13

Re: can't modprobe

I'm having the same problem here.

no24

Member

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 62

Re: can't modprobe

im not sure if this is how i solved my issue but modprobe was failing because of the kernel upgrade from 2.6.16 to 2.6.19.

i THINK i fixed this by changing

in /boot/grub/menu.lst

initrd /initrd26.img 

initrd /kernel26.img

rbrownclown

Member

Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Re: can't modprobe

Wow... that's my problem too!