FAWCTK... Having heard nothing from the list about this I continued on with my upgrade from Potato_r0 into Woody using the archived deb's on hand. After that upgrade, the modules suddenly were properly detected.
The only difference between the modules of 2.4 and 2.2 that I can detect is the use of a non-flat directory tree under 2.4 (several levels). Perhaps the later version of modutils handles this properly... Kenward -- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein