I tried the modprobe and it hangs. It only does it on a few modules. Like the
Paraport for the parallel zip drive and my sound card. Acer FX 3D (AD1816.o)
-Al
> On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 01:43:31PM -0500, Bug Hunter wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Al Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Same problem
> > >
> > > -Al
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 08:43 02/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > > > >I am trying to load some modules by hand by doing a:
> > > > >
> > > > >insmod module name
> > > >
> > > > Try modprobe instead of insmod.
> > > >
> > > > hih
> > > > nick@nexnix
> >
> > I have found that some modules depend upon other modules for symbols.
> > For example, msdos.o relies upon nls.o (if it is not compiled into the
> > kernel), and vfat.o relies upons msdos.o. so, you have to load nls,
> > msdos, vfat in that order.
>
> Actually, modprobe _should_ be smart enough to auto-load the modules that
> are relied upon by your requested module. That's what
> /lib/modules/<kernel>/modules.dep is for!
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
