(I am very new to Linux) I dunno how that happened .. I tried to get my nVidia card working (Gefore2MX) in 3D and downloaded the new drivers from nvidia.com (NVidia_Kernel + NVidia_GLX). But I don't see why that should have this effect... After I rebootet my system several times an error massage appeared that the modules.dep file could not be found (/lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/modules.dep). I could locate the modules.dep file at the patch where it should be, but after "updatedb" i couldn't locate it anymore... So i think that it must have been there before :) When I try to start "depmod" i get an errormessage that some IEEE 1394 Device causes the trouble - but since I don't have any firewire adapters or something else I don't know how to handle that... Maybe that would not be such a big problem, but since my network adapter and soundcard are not working anymore, it is one... I am connected to the Internet via LAN so Inet-connection is also not possible. Everything else seems working fine... Any ideas how to solve this problem? big thanks to anyone who reads this =) best regards, Christoph

I forgot to say, someone told me I should try to install another kernel to solve the problem or something... But I don't know how to get a Kernel that will work with my distribution, nor how I install a new kernel... My distr. is i386 SuSE 7.3

Hi, if "depmod" only gives errors with one module then you might have only one module available (maybe by accident) or all other modules are OK (modules are located on /lib/modules/2.4.17 or whatever your kernel-version is). Try "lsmod" to check if modules are running at all or "modconf" to install new (allready existing) modules to the kernel (incuding starting them at bootup). If everything fails here a short kernel compilation help (not very precise): -download a kernel-source (look for kernel-2.4) -if kernel has .tar.bz2 ending do as root: "cd /usr/src/" "bzip2 -cd /location/kernel.2.4.xx.tar.bz2 | tar x -" "mv kernel.2.4.xx linux" -now you have a linux directory containing the new kernel source (min 90MB !) -cd linux -"make menuconfig" (if that fails do a "make config") -go through the kernel options (I used the help alot!) -"make dep bzlilo modules modules_install clean" -this does all the compiling in one step (kind of) -reboot Thats it ! One more thing: keep the old kernel as backup in the lilo config, if (most likely) the new kernel fails to work. I had to compile a new kernel about 10 times until I got rid of the "kernel panic" errors. Select as much as you can as module that keeps the kernel slim (and fast) and only select what you really need. Good luck, Solo