[plug] Modules problem with PPC Debian machine

[William Kenworthy]

Presuming you built and installed the modules, did you run depmod -av. 
Sounds like you have a system that is not set up properly and things
that would normally be run on boot are being missed.

BillK

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:58, Chris Caston wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have an oldworld Mac (7220/200) that I have installed PPC Woody on
> decided to cut my teeth building a firewall that I also plan to make a
> SIP proxy. 
> 
> Being somewhat of an amateur fumbling around in dark I first installed
> the system with the 2.2 kernel and was later (after much pratting about)
> was able to upgrade to 2.4 and boot to it correctly using BootX from
> MacOS. 
> 
> The kernel I select from BootX is 2.4.18
> 
> uname -a delivers:
> 
> Linux debainppc 2.4.18-newpmac #1 <incorrect time/date snipped> ppc
> unknown
> 
> Now in /lib/modules I have the following directories:
> 
> 2.2.20-pmac/
> 2.4.18-powerpc/
> 
> lsmod mod only gives the headings
> 
> and when I try to start 
> 
> Shorewall I get a long list of errors the most relevant of which is most
> likely:
> 
> modprobe: can't open the dependencies file
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-newpmac/modules.dep (no such file or directory)
> 
> Obviously I'm missing all my modules. 
> 
> Any idea how to get them back?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris Caston
> 
> Aptitude Technology
> 
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