modprobe wont work on fc2...

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On May 23, 2004 at 11:29, Kyle in a soothing rage wrote:

>hello,
>
>i just installed fc2 on my system. i overwrote my fc1 installation. when 
>i try to run /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf i get this message "Cannot 
>find old version of modprobe. Giving up." I am using this version of 
>modprobe which is confirmed by the rpm package modutils-2.4.26-16.
>
>why is it doing this? should i dl module-init-tools and compile the 
>latest version?
It is a good thing that it did. FC2 does not need that.
It already comes with a modprobe.conf. FC does not use
module-init-tools, it uses modutils. The version included
in FC2 can handle 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. The version provided
by Arjan van de Ven also handles both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

N.Emile...
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