I'd advice you to build a kernel for your system (compile it yourself from sources) and about the modutils... ;-( I've had it with every system I installed potato or woody on, so no my /etc/init.d/modutils looks something like this: #!/bin/sh echo "No way I'm gonna load any modules here..." echo "I'll do it when I need them"
(Actually they are in dutch, but I don't know if you would understand that ;) ) And as it says, if I need a module anywhere (I hardly ever do because I got most things in my kernel, except for a networkcard module) I load them in. So the first lines of my /etc/init.d/network (after the #!/bin/sh) looks like: /sbin/insmod rtl8139 /sbin/insmod smc-ultra That way it works the way I want it to work... ;-) Ron Rademaker On Tue, 30 May 2000, William Dowling wrote: > Can some one explain the relation between kernel upgrade and > slink->potato upgrade? > I had a working slink, and did this: > 1) updated from my 2.0.36 kernel to 2.2.14 by installing just > kernel-image-2.2.14-ide. > This was a failure in that after the update, (on network start, I think) > I saw messages like > "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ... eth0: not found" and I had no network > connection. So > I uninstalled and went back to 2.0.36 > 2) Reading in some doc that potato supports both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, I > did a slink->potato upgrade. > Almost everything worked, but I got messages telling me update-modules > failed, and several > warnings about modutils, seemingly indicating something in potato is not > completely happy > with my 2.0.36 kernel or its configuration. > > Right now, the only thing that is not working is pulling mail from a > local IMAP server. After my > upgrade, I can't do it, from either vm under emacs, or from the Netscape > mail client. (Thank > goodness for VMWare -- I can still my mail from Netscape under Win98 > under VMWare under potato). > > So: Do I need the new kernel? Is it possible the modutils problems are > related to the bum access to > IMAP? > > Thanks for any help, > > Will Dowling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
