Losing modules

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Sat Sep 17 11:53:37 UTC 2005


[quoted lines by Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson on 2005/09/17 at 15:51 +1000]

>when I try to activate the speaker typing "depmod 
>pcspkr", I lose the function of several modules, such as sound, network 
>and the ability to access vfat. Needless to say the the PC speaker hasn't 
>been activated.

Use modprobe rather than depmod. Using depmod to install modules wouldn't work
because that's not what the depmod command does.

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