High, On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> Recently, I upgrade my kernel to 2.4.8 from a 2.2 kernel. During the > process, my modutils files got overwritten by clean copies, losing all my > hardware configurations. I unwisely did not make a backup of /etc before > doing this. > Are the files really changed, or is it just that no modules are loaded? When upgrading to 2.4, you also need to install modutils-2.4, because the modules tree is different. > My question is, is it possible to re-detect all my hardware and generate a > new set of modutils files? Since the install program correctly identified > my hardware, I must assume there is some way to generate this data. The > reason I ask, is that the server is across town and I don't want to have to > go over there to check what hardware is inside just to configure it. > Use modconf to configure your hardware. But, the nwe modutils needs to be installed first. Greetz, Sebastiaan
