Problem with modules.dep

[stokes]

Hi and happy new year to all,

I need a hand with my modules.dep on Slackware 10.2. The problem is it's missing or in the wrong place, and I need to either create one or get modprobe to look in the right directory. I discovered this when installing ndiswrapper and doing the "modprobe ndiswrapper" at the end:

# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.4.25-ROM/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Don't ask me why my kernel version is 2.4.25-ROM, it's something to do with it being a Cobalt microserver but I can't fathom it out as I chose bare.i when I was doing the install. Anyway, I tried creating a modules.dep using depmod and this happened:

depmod
depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented

I've also tried generate-modprobe.conf from the module-init-tools and this happened:

/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.25-ROM/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

I do have a modules.dep in /lib/modules/2.4.29/modules.dep, but if I copy it to /lib/modules/2.4.25-ROM and try modprobe ndiswrapper again I get "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

Any ideas anyone?

[Zero-0-Effect]

Try depmod -a , that should rebuild the module.dep file. If you get that QM_MODULES: Function not emplimented error you might want to check that module loading is supported in that kernel.

You might want to also try updating modutils to the latest available.

[stokes]

depmod -a gives the same errror as depmod - how can I tell if module loading is supported in this kernel?

[kern]

if only it were 2.6 you could do

kernow@ulysses(~)$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep MODULES
CONFIG_MODULES=y
kernow@ulysses(~)$

but 2.4 has no such feature, unless you manage to dig out the config from somewhere in /usr/src