[NCLUG] Modules not loading

[Brent Wilkins]

QH,

That seems to have helped.  Your first step up updating to the latest image
brought me from 3.13.0-24-generic to 3.13.0-35-generic.  I suspect that was
only the fix by side effect if anything.  Running update-grub2 added the
new, 5th kernel image to my boot options.

Updating the initramfs only updated my newest kernel:

> $ sudo update-initramfs -u
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.17.0-rc4-next-20140909
> Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8


So, I'm not sure what may have done the trick, but I've now booted into the
current 3.13.0-35-generic kernel 2 times with working audio and wireless!
 Thanks.

- Brent

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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