On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Robert P. J. Day (rpjday(a)mindspring.com) said:
> based on my reading, the new kernel prefers to read from the
> file /etc/modprobe.conf, rather than the older /etc/modules.conf.
>
> to help in the migration, there is the utility
> "generate-modprobe.conf", but in this situation, it doesn't work --
> it fails complaining of a missing "modprobe.old".
A new modprobe.conf should be generated on the first upgrade to
2.6 capable modutils, with the contents of whatever's in
modules.conf at the time. Changes aren't kept in sync
back and forth, however.
but in what way does this help when one starts with a fresh
install of severn, *then* upgrades to a 2.6.x kernel? that
doesn't involve a modutils upgrade since the new modutils are
there from the beginning in severn, no?
at the moment, on my system -- severn + kernel 2.6.0-test2 --
i have an informative, 7-line /etc/modules.conf file, which
contains information about my nvidia card, my orinoco wireless
driver and a few other things. in other words, it's valuable
information.
i also have a lengthy /etc/modprobe.conf.dist full of utterly
generic info. i want to, if it's possible, automatically generate
a new modprobe.conf based on the older info from modules.conf.
at the moment, i don't see a way to do that since the one utility
that might have helped, /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf (sp?),
is adamant about finding an *old* modprobe version, otherwise
it chokes and dies. and there *is* no older version on severn.
i'm not asking for changes to be kept in sync back and forth.
i want to go forward just once. and it appears that there's
no obvious way to do that.
rday
p.s. am i making any sense? or am i just embarrassing
myself as usual?