[NTLUG:Discuss] Kernel module woes.

[Scott Denlinger]

I recently set up a Debian Woody box using the 2.4 kernel boot flavor 
specified in the setup disks. I have a QIC tape drive in this, so I 
thought I would install Ftape, and compile and install it as a kernel 
module. It appears that in order to do this, it was necessary for me to 
recompile my kernel, so I did that, and now there are a lot of modules 
that don't get loaded when I boot. Here is the process I went through.

1. I installed the kernel sources via dselect, so the sources are in 
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18

2. I used 'make xconfig' to create a .config file. In the process of 
doing that, I realized I could just configure ftape support in the 
kernel without messing with ftape as a standalone program, so that's 
what I did.

3. I then used Debian's kernel-package tool to create a .deb file. 
Specifically, I used 'make-kpkg kernel_image', which resulted in a .deb 
file. I installed this using 'dpkg -i <file>.deb

4. I let this go ahead and make modifications to lilo, and rebooted

Lilo successfully booted up the new kernel, but now there are a lot of 
messages about modprobe not being able to find any modules. The result 
of this is that I am not connected to the net on this box, since the 
modules for my NIC cards aren't loaded.

What step did I miss in the above process? Doesn't the kernel_image 
which the make-kpkg creates also create and install the modules?

Obviously I'm in over my head here, but I suspect there is a simple 
solution to my problem. Thanks in advance for any tips.

Scott Denlinger