[NCLUG] Modules not loading

[Quentin Hartman]

Cool, glad it helped.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Brent Wilkins <brent at wilkins.in> wrote:

> 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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