Updating modules after /boot update ?

[EtiGre]

Hi folks,

Now that I'm using the latest and greatest boot files (manually downloaded from github) , I have modules symbol issues when trying to use a WiFi dongle (for instance: ipv6: disagrees about version of symbol tcp_syn_ack_timeout)

rpi-update fails to overwrite my modules directory:
cp: cannot overwrite directory `//lib/modules/3.1.9+/kernel/lib' with non-directory
cp: cannot overwrite directory `//lib/modules/3.1.9+/kernel/net' with non-directory

Have I definitely killed my SD card? What is the recommended way to have the latest system (kernel + filesystem) on the Debian Wheezy distro?

Cheers,
Etienne

[kadamski]

If you updated files in /boot/ manually, you should also update contents of /lib/modules with the modules from github (I assume you where downloading boot files from github too). Each time you change kernel.img file, you have to update kernel modules too.

[EtiGre]

I thought rpi-update was going to update the modules for me...
I had given up updating them manually because it seemed not possible to download a whole git directory.

As it turns out there is a "zip download" button in github so getting the modules directory as a zip archive and installing it manually is definitely the way to go.

[kadamski]

rpi-update should update kernel modules for you (so my suggestion is not relevant if you used rpi-update).. But you said, you updated boot files manually from github so I thought you where downloading them manually and placing them in /boot directory, not using rpi-update. Is that right? If so, then you have to do the same with modules directory (as you already figured out, downloading tarball is the best way of doing it).