where are the modules in 2.4.20?

jack mendez wiler1 at earthlink.net
Sun May 4 23:04:12 EDT 2003


i did just that and now i have no speech and no network access to the machine
only i was going from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 so a different directory would have
been created.
and there is no directory under the   modules that is 2.4.20
any ideas?

At 09:59 PM 5/4/03 -0500, you wrote:
>You obviously didn't do "make modules" and "make modules_install."  The
>order I suggest for a kernel is "make bzImage."  Copy the bzImage and
>System.map to the place where the old ones are, backing up the old ones
>first.  Then, do the "make modules" and "make modules_install."  Another
>thing is that if you compile the same kernel more than once, remove the
>old modules before installing the new ones.  For example, Slackware 9
>ships with kernel 2.4.20.  If you build a custom kernel from it and
>install its modules without removing the old ones, there will be lots and
>lots of errors about undefined symbols.  Either remove or rename the
>directory for your modules before installing a new kernel.  I always
>prefer to rename and keep it around until I'm sure the new kernel works
>right.
>
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