[plug] Modules problem with PPC Debian machine

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Mon Oct 20 21:46:24 WST 2003


I installed the kernel images from apt and I'll check exactly what it is
pointing to in BootX.

depmod -av

gives a whole bunch of failure messages (none of the things is tried to
check work)

Should I just reinstall the system or is there away to fix it?

regards,

Chris
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 21:32, William Kenworthy wrote:
> 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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