On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:38:23PM +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: >I would like to know whether I have done the right thing. > >Earlier, I had tried - >'modprobe pctel' >'modprobe ptserial' >'update-modules' >'depmod -a' >This worked till I rebooted.
There is a tool for doing this called 'modconf', which does exactly the stuff what you had done manually i.e: it adds that module to /etc/modules. >How exactly should 'update-modules' be used (say, in the present case) ? update-modules just regenerates the /etc/modules.conf file using the files in the directory /etc/modutils. /etc/modutils contains files such as ppp, aliases, setserial etc. etc. which contain the entries for modules to be loaded. /etc/modutils/ppp contains alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate Those modules which you can load just my saying modprobe <module name> can be added to /etc/modules file. All these modules in /etc/modules file are loaded on startup. HTH. Peace -- Rajesh : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : A digital clock for your prompt LOST #297 If bash is your default shell, you can have a cute digital clock as your prompt, by adding this to your .bash_profile Try: PS1='\[\033[36;40m[\t]\[\033[32;40m:\w\$\[\033[m ' ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
