Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

From: Simon Kitching (simon_at_ecnetwork.co.nz)
Date: 06/07/04

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    To: dircha <dircha@dircha.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:45:36 +1200

    On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:22, dircha wrote:
    > > Bingo! Running "lsmod" in the working vs non-working config shows
    > > that a whole bunch of drivers are no longer being loaded after the
    > > dist-upgrade. Running modprobe to force the network drivers to be
    > > loaded restores network connectivity.
    > >
    > > So the question now is: why did dist-upgrade from testing to unstable
    > > mess around with the list of modules that are loaded at boot time?
    > > That's sort of a rhetorical question; I don't hugely care as I now
    > > have a working system [at least I can manually force the necessary
    > > drivers to be loaded on boot]. But presumably other people will be
    > > bitten by this too...

    Just for the record: I did a dist-upgrade today and rebooted, and all
    the appropriate modules are now loading automatically. Whatever the
    problem was, it seems to have been fixed in the latest unstable.

    Dircha: thanks for the additional info on modutils.

    Regards,

    Simon 

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