Corrupted modprobe.conf file

[cmcveigh at adelphia.net]

I am running FC3 on an IBM T42 laptop.  Early this morning I was running
system-config-network to change some network settings.  The system-
config-network app became very erratic in it behavior so I had to kill
its process.  I next rebooted my machine (normaly less that a 1 minute
process) and it took 19 minutes to reboot.  After many hours of
searching I found that I had a corrupted /etc/modprobe.conf file.  I was
185 MB in size and full of gibberish.


My question is how can I regenerate a correct modprobe.conf file for my
machine?  Can I simply reinstall the package that creates it?  (rpm -q
--whatprovides /etc/modprobe.conf does not return anything), Are there
scripts in place that recreate the file? (I did try
running /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf but all it seems to want to do is
convert a modules.conf  file to a modprobe.conf file).

Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

Charlie