I recently acquired an HP-7100 CD-R/W drive. I re-built my kernel for modular support, specifically:
paride epat pcd/pg Everything works like a charm if I load paride, then epat, then pcd, and then access the drive. Now, I'd like to start automating these steps. In my modules.dep, I see that pcd depends on paride, and epat depends on paride. I know that epat must also be installed before pcd will work, but modules.dep does not show a dependency there. So, can I: 1. Explicitly add dependency information to /etc/conf.modules? Something like "pcd depends epat", or similar? 2. Use the "pre-install" directive in /etc/conf.modules to effect the behavior I want, such as: "pre-install pcd modprobe epat"? 3. In some other way convince depmod that pcd depends on epat? I would also like to convince kerneld that when I access the device /dev/pcd0, the pcd module should be loaded. By "access the device", I mean something like: $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/pcd0 /cdrom When I enter this command, I want kerneld to load the pcd module, if necessary. Is this the behavior I should expect from kerneld? Come to think of it, maybe kerneld is trying to load the module but failing for the reasons outlined above. I'll have to look into this more when I get home. Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
