Jon Portnoy wrote:

> On 2004-01-14, Michael R. <homerg@jneweb.com> wrote:
>> Just installed Gentoo with kernel 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 and I'm getting an
>> error loading the modules.
>>
>> QM_MODULES: Function not implemented
>>
>> A search on Google said the modules tools had to be updated for a
>> different distro. During the install I kept seeing a message that
>> everything was up to date or something like that. I really have no idea
>> of what I'm doing, but I was at least able to boot into Gentoo so I
>> consider that a good start. Any clue as to what is wrong would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> You're using a 2.6 kernel and need module-init-tools.
>
> emerge module-init-tools and you should be good to go.
>

Had the same problem.
Did a emerge -C modutils and emerge module-init-tools to solve the problem.
the machine I had to reinstall weeks before did not suffer from this
problem so I gess modutils was updated over module-init-tools.