Have you run it several times? I usually run rmmod -a && rmmod -a At my place: uname -a : Linux 2.4.18 #1 Thu Apr 4 19:49:10 MEST 2002 i686 unknown insmod -V: insmod version 2.4.15 It works perfectly. Lukas On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hello all > > A dumb simple question - rmmod -a simply doesn't work. Is there anything > globally broken somewhere? One of the configurations I tried was 2.4.10, > modutils 2.4.5... Unused modules with autoclean flag set are not > unloaded... (SuSE-7.x). I read somewhere, that /sbin/modprobe must not be > writable by group / others, and it is a symlink, so, I even replaced it > with a hard link - same... > -- Lukas Ruf Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Office: ETZ-G61.2 Computer Engineering and Phone: +41/1/632 7312 Networks Laboratory (TIK) Fax: +41/1/632 1035 ETH Zentrum PGP 2.6: ID D20BA2ED; Gloriastr. 35 Fingerprint 6323 B9BC 9C8E 6563 B477 BADD FEA6 E6B7 CH-8092 Zurich -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/