[LUAU] New kernel

[gsublett at lava.net]

On 23-Apr-99 Kevin Brammer wrote:
> I tried modprobe, but no luck...  I looked in the /usr/src/linux/modules
> directory, and it lists parport.o, parport_pc.o, and parport_probe.o
> 
> I tried loading (through modprobe) the parport, ppa, and imm modules, but
> no luck.  When I load imm, my printer spits out a page though....is there
> some conflict there?
> 
> I have a zip -> scanner -> printer daisy chain right now that worked fine
> with the 2.0.36 kernel.
> 
> Anyone else using the 2.2.x kernel experience anything similar?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> At 04:26 PM 4/23/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Kevin Brammer wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> I just compiled a new 2.2.6 kernel, and everything "seems" to be running
>>> fine.  However, the kernel provides another zip driver called "imm" and if
>>> your zip is either a new 100Mb, or a 250Mb one, it wants to use it.  
>>> 
>>> Well, that's fine...so I configured the kernel to have modular zip/scsi
>>> support thinking I could just do it like I always did and go through the
>>> insmod ppa -> mount process.  Now, when I type insmod ppa or insmod imm (I
>>> have a newer 100Mb) I get a resource busy error with an object file as the
>>> source (can't remember the name right now).  any ideas what's going on???
>>
>>Instead of using 'insmod' you should be using the 'modprobe' program.
>>This is because the imm/ppa drivers depend on another module - the
>>parport module.  Modprobe is smart, and will load the module
>>dependencies before ppa/imm driver.
>>
>>So if you have selected parport as a module, that needs to be loaded
>>first.
>>
>>Myles
>>
>>--

Have you run depmod -a since complying the kernel? -  man depmod 
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Gary
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