Comment 22 for bug 597743

I do not understand why such detailled information and logs are required, as everybody having Lucid can easily confirm that module i2c-core is neither available as module, nor compiled into the kernel (there even is no option about it in the kernel configuration as supplied with Lucid):

ingo@pp:/boot$ cat config-2.6.32-22-generic | grep -i i2c
CONFIG_MOUSE_SYNAPTICS_I2C=m
CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_AD7879_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO=y
CONFIG_I2C_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
# CONFIG_I2C_HELPER_AUTO is not set
# I2C Algorithms
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCA=m
# I2C Hardware Bus support
CONFIG_I2C_ALI1535=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALI1563=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALI15X3=m
CONFIG_I2C_AMD756=m
CONFIG_I2C_AMD756_S4882=m
CONFIG_I2C_AMD8111=m
CONFIG_I2C_I801=m
CONFIG_I2C_ISCH=m
CONFIG_I2C_PIIX4=m
CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2=m
CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2_S4985=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIS630=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m
CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m
CONFIG_I2C_SCMI=m
# I2C system bus drivers (mostly embedded / system-on-chip)
CONFIG_I2C_GPIO=m
CONFIG_I2C_OCORES=m
CONFIG_I2C_SIMTEC=m
# External I2C/SMBus adapter drivers
CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=m
CONFIG_I2C_TAOS_EVM=m
CONFIG_I2C_TINY_USB=m
# Graphics adapter I2C/DDC channel drivers
CONFIG_I2C_VOODOO3=m
# Other I2C/SMBus bus drivers
CONFIG_I2C_PCA_PLATFORM=m
CONFIG_I2C_STUB=m
# Miscellaneous I2C Chip support
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_ALGO is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CHIP is not set
# I2C GPIO expanders:
CONFIG_MFD_WM8350_I2C=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_IR_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_SI4713=m
CONFIG_I2C_SI470X=m
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_RIVA_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C=m
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_3DFX_I2C=y
CONFIG_SND_SOC_I2C_AND_SPI=m
# I2C RTC drivers
# I2C encoder or helper chips
CONFIG_DRM_I2C_CH7006=m
CONFIG_LIRC_I2C=m

Moreover checking the kernel-parameters.txt does not offer the needed options to configure it.