On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:50:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I just finished installing my new 2.6.1 kernel, and it broke my > > > > ethernet card configuration or something. Eth0 failed to go up on > > > > start, and ifconfig eth0 up shows this: > > > > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > > > > > Your driver is probably compiled as a module and the kernel does not > > > load it at network configuration time. > > > > > > I have the same issue and haven't found any solution up to now. > > > > If that is the problem, you should create an alias for your network > > card module in '/etc/modeprobe.d/aliases' or a file with such alias > > line into on /etc/modeprobe.d/ directory. > > Ok. I was mistakely using /etc/modutils/aliases. With it, update-modules > creates the actual alias in /etc/modules.conf which, if I understand > correctly, is no longer read by modprobe. >
AFAIK, 'update-modules' manages '/lib/modules/modprobe.conf'. Then, the new alias will be there. Besides, '/lib/modules/modprobe.conf' is included by '/etc/modprobe.conf' Greetings. > Thx. > > -- > Eric
