Re: question..

[Brian hayward <hayward slothmud org>]

# depmod -a gave me the following..:
# 
# [root www2 /]# depmod -a
# *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/iBCS
# *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/ipx.o
# *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/eepro100.o
# *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/2.0.30/ipv4/ip_alias.o
# 
# How can I fix these issues?

You basically just recompiled your currently running 2.0.30 kernel, when
you chose "Y" to some of the kernel compile options, you chose to insert
them directly into the kernel.

Now you have them in your kernel, as well as sitting as modules from the
previous install in your /lib/modules/KERN_VERS directory.  Depmod
searches that directory on bootup, attempting to setup module
dependancies. [this allows kerneld to auto-load modules when needed, etc]

Basically, depmod just warned you that those modules were already active
in the kernel.  To fix them, you could delete the ones that it complained
about.  Or even better, do this:

cd /lib/modules; mv 2.0.30 2.0.30.old 
cd /usr/src/linux
make dep; make clean; make zlilo; make modules; make modules_install

[basically follow the procedure for recompiling the kernel and installing
it into lilo, i normally make zImage and manually install it]

This will guarantee a fresh kernel+modules install.

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Brian