modprobe floppy showed:

modprobe: Can't locate module floppy

however when I cked my kernel I see floppy suport it compiled into the 
kernel--not a module. WOuld that make a difference? Everwhere else I
looked, floppy support is there. 

On Friday 06 February 2004 04:27 pm, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> This is a surprise, but no, I dont have it. Odd, I have never setup linux
> before w/o it. Time of a new kernel.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
>
> On Friday 06 February 2004 04:38 pm, Canek Pel�ez Vald�s wrote:
> > You have floppy support as a module? Try modprobe floppy.
> >
> > Canek
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:04, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > for some reason I dont have any floppy devices. When I ran MAKEDEV fd*
> > > under root I got
> > >
> > > ".devfsd presence implies active DevFS.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation."
> > >
> > > I checked the man page for devfsd but it only confused me more.
> > >
> > > ANy ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which
> > otherwise require harder thinking.
> >             -- Jerome Lettvin

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Best Regards,

Bruce

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deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin



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