Problems with recent updates (with fix)

[Erich Hoover <ehoover mines edu>]

I had problems after updating recently where absolutely nothing could 
get modprobe'd, so I tried manually modprobing things and received 
errors about lines in /etc/modprobe.conf.dist.  I tried commenting out 
the lines and it just made errors with other lines.  I ended up just 
renaming /etc/modprobe.conf.dist and modprobe started working fine 
again.  Don't know if this will help anyone but having modprobe is 
certainly a good thing.