When modules are changed, /etc/init.d/modules does an /sbin/modules-update when going through the boot runlevel. Near its end, modules-update does a `depmod -a -F /usr/src/linux/System.map`, but users with a separate /usr partition may not have it mounted yet.
Probably I should at least say what baselayout version I have. Here's the whole boat: Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 acpi adns alsa apache2 atlas audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 crypt curl dbus dvd dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon fftw firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile idn imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mime mmx mmxext mng motif moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline real rtc sdl shared spell sse ssl subtitles tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis xml2 xv zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104288 ***
