3c940 ethernet driver got unloaded, how to reload?

[charlweed]

I hope this is a simple question.
I installed a wacom tablet driver and SOMEHOW, by reboot time, I think the ethernet driver got unloaded.
I suspect this because "lspci -k" does NOT show a kernel driver for the device, and "ifconfig -a" shows only the loopback device.

The "card" is built-in:
3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000-Base-T [Marvell] rev 12
System is Fedora 14, kernel is 2.6.35.14-97.

1) How to I reinstall the suitable driver?
Thanks!

[charlweed]

Yikes.
I think I found the correct diver, by browseing the kernel source: and I think the correct driver is "skge.ko"
The bad news is "modprobe skge.ko" returns the error "module not found"
Even worse, "modprobe -l" shows nothing but
/home/installer/modules/linuxwacom/src/2.6.30/wacom.ko
This makes me think that ALL modules were removed!
How to fix!

[Irithori]

try

modprobe skge
lsmod

[charlweed]

Thanks for the reply.
"mosprobe skge" returns module not found.
"lsmod" returns only 9 lines of output.
On my other linux system, returns 68 lines of output, showing many more loaded modules.

More evidence of disaster. I'm surprised it booted.

/lib/modules/2.6.35.14-97.fc14.x86.PAE/kernel seems to still exist intact.

[charlweed]

Fixed (I think)
"depmod -a"
Seems to have fixed everything.
I believe the /etc/modprobe.dep file got clobbered, and depmod -a restored it.

Several nasty surprises here.
1) The script in the wacom driver repository is broken
2) A missing /etc/modprobe.dep prevents any modules from loading
3) No warnings/errors are generated when /etc/modprobe.dep is missing

The manpage for modprobe notes "modprobe expects an up-to-date modules.dep file, as generated by depmod..."
It does NOT state "if this file is missing, no modules can be loaded."
Even "modprobe -cv" does not print anything about problems with modprobe.dep.
Beware!