diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index e78c9d9fd..06dd81af0 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2010-06-18</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Module-Init-Tools-3.12.
+          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2675">#2675</ulink>
+          and <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2688">#2688</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Add a sed to the current kernel to work around
           a bug in linux-2.6.34 and earlier.  This change will be removed 
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index 993922e03..82d30d1dc 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -136,9 +136,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Mktemp &mktemp-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Module-Init-Tools &module-init-tools-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>MPC &mpc-version;</para>
     </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
index 979ee57d6..2f19440cf 100644
--- a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
+++ b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Module-Init-Tools</title>
 
+    <para>To avoid a problem with regenerating the man pages when not needed, 
+    first rewrite a file that just points to another man page:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo '.so man5/modprobe.conf.5' > modprobe.d.5</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>The testsuite of this package is geared towards the needs of its
     Maintainer. The command <command>make check</command> builds a specially
     wrapped version of modprobe which is useless for normal operation. To run
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 3243ae982..31f69cdc2 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -357,12 +357,12 @@
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-du "21 MB">
 <!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY module-init-tools-version "3.11.1">
-<!ENTITY module-init-tools-size "196 KB">
+<!ENTITY module-init-tools-version "3.12">
+<!ENTITY module-init-tools-size "917 KB">
 <!ENTITY module-init-tools-url "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-&module-init-tools-version;.tar.bz2">
-<!ENTITY module-init-tools-md5 "28dfcb9e24cdbeb12b99ac1eb8af7dea">
+<!ENTITY module-init-tools-md5 "8b2257ce9abef74c4a44d825d23140f3">
 <!ENTITY module-init-tools-home "http://www.kerneltools.org/KernelTools.org">
-<!ENTITY module-init-tools-ch6-du "8.7 MB">
+<!ENTITY module-init-tools-ch6-du "8.6 MB">
 <!ENTITY module-init-tools-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY mpc-version "0.8.2">