Re: [TCLUG:16119] More network baby steps

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> OK, I have a couple of stupid questions.  I am RTFM'ing as fast as I can,
> but I post here just in case someone can give me a two line "Eureka!".
> 
> First:  These boxes are running Caldera 2.2 (2.2.5).  They load up nfs
> fine, until I shut them down and reboot.  Then they tell me that mount
> doesn't support the nfs filesystem.  Sure enough, the module isn't
> loaded.  If I try insmod, I get a pile of garbage (1 1/2 screens worth of
> error garbage -- pretty low-level.  If any one *really* needs to see it,
> I'll try and capture it.)  If I try loading the module from LISA (their
> config tool) it tells me that it was unable to initialize the module.

Most of the time, it is a good idea to use `modprobe' instead of
`insmod'.  The module you're inserting may need some prerequisites, and
modprobe can usually insert the necessary modules..

> At one point, i saw it tell me that mount was newer than the
> kernel.  Under /lib/modules, I have the choice of 2.0.36/ or 2.2.5/ before
> I get to the real modules dir.  Apparently some of the config thinks I
> have an older kernel.  /proc/version says 2.2.5, though.

having multiple directories under /lib/modules is normal, as long as
you've had more than one kernel with this system (I presume you
installed Caldera 2.2 over an older version?)   At any rate, you may
want to run `depmod -a' to try and rewrite the modules.dep file, which
contains all of the module dependencies for modprobe.

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