Hi,
Are you sure you don't have an old version of modutils somewhere in
your system and that irattach uses this old version instead of the new
one you installed? irattach tries to use /sbin/modprobe
I don't have /etc/conf.modules and I have no problem with that.
-- Dag
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:10:45 -0500, you wrote:
> during my quest to get IrDA working with the test11-pre5 patch, i ran
> into a little problem. when i installed the new modutils (2.3.30), i had
> to create a new module configuration file. depmod claimed that the old
> one was deprecated. however, moving /etc/conf.modules to
> /etc/modules/modules.conf broke irattach. it complained grievously of
> not being able to load the irtty module. actually it was unable to load
> the ldisc module aliased as irtty.
>
> to fix it, i just copied the modules.conf file back to conf.modules and
> it seemed to work. however, most of the modutils now complain about the
> deprecated configuration file location. it looks something like this:
>
> /sbin/modprobe irtty
> Warning: modutils is reading from /etc/conf.modules because
> /etc/modules.conf does not exist. The use of /etc/conf.modules
> is
> deprecated, please rename /etc/conf.modules to
> /etc/modules.conf
> as soon as possible. Command
> mv /etc/conf.modules /etc/modules.conf
>
> what needs to be fixed to eliminate this inconsistency?
>
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