Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

[Paul Scott]

Simon Kitching wrote:
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:42, dircha wrote:
 

Simon Kitching wrote:
   

You sound like someone who has probably thought of this as the possible 
cause of the problem, but did you upgrade your kernel as well?

Nope. 
 

But did the dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?  If you had previously 
installed a kernel-image it might have been upgraded.

Or even if you have not upgraded your kernel, but if the kernel driver 
for your nic was compiled as a module, have you checked whether the 
module is being loaded (lsmod), and if so, is it?
   

Bingo! Running "lsmod" in the working vs non-working config shows that a
whole bunch of drivers are no longer being loaded after the
dist-upgrade. Running modprobe to force the network drivers to be loaded
restores network connectivity.
Thanks, dircha!
So the question now is: why did dist-upgrade from testing to unstable
mess around with the list of modules that are loaded at boot time?
That's sort of a rhetorical question; I don't hugely care as I now have
a working system [at least I can manually force the necessary drivers to
be loaded on boot]. But presumably other people will be bitten by this
too...
Presumably the list of modules to load on boot is just a config file
floating around somewhere like in /etc. Or is it dynamically determined
during booting [in which case the dynamic detection has been broken]?
 

See above.
Just a thought.
Paul Scott
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