[NCLUG] Modules not loading

[Quentin Hartman]

That sounds like a a kernel / initramfs issue. I would make sure you have
the latest default kernel installed (in ubuntu the package is called
 "linux-image-generic") and once that is in there, make sure grub
("update-grub" and/or "update-grub2" ) and the initramfs
("update-initramfs") are updated . Reboot, select that kernel, and you
should hopefully have a working baseline. The one possible outlier would be
the NVidia drivers, depending on which ones you are using and how you
installed them.

QH

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Brent Wilkins <brent.wilkins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm running Linux Mint 17 (based on Ubuntu 14.04).  I'm not sure what I did
> to break things, maybe an update, maybe using nvidia drivers recently,
> maybe booting into a linux-next kernel, etc.  More times than not when I
> boot my wireless, my audio, and my desktop environment (Cinnamon) all fail
> to load.  Wi-Fi is the most important to me, so I played with that first.
>
> I can get my Wi-Fi working with the following:
> $ sudo depmod -a
> $ sudo modprobe iwl4965
>
> This will allow the driver and its 3 dependencies to be found an load.
>  Isn't a system supposed to sort all of that out at boot time?  Does anyone
> know where I should poke around to find the root cause?  Thanks.
>
> Brent Wilkins *|* 970.430.6699 *|* brent.wilkins at gmail.com
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