On Wed, 10 May 2000, mitrana cristian wrote about, modprobe:
> Hi,
>
> I compiled a new kernel (2.2.13) and I get the message
> "modprobe:modprobe:cannot locate device char-major-4" repeated almost 20
> times at boot time (after the init).Everything goes well afterwrads but
> is still an error and can't figure out where does it come from.If you
> have a hint, I would appreciate the answer.
> the system is SuSE 6.4
> Cristi
char-major-4 = serial
The error is possably caused by having the serial driver compiled into the
kernel and not having edited /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules.
comment out
alias char-major-4 serial
Now if you compiled the kernel with serial support as a module then you
need the alias line stated above in the file to tell modprobe what to do.
The compile time option is;
CONFIG_SERIAL
If you cant remember how you compiled the support, check;
/usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_SERIAL=m compiled as module
CONFIG_SERIAL=y compiled in the kernel
# CONFIG_SERIAL is not set means no serial support anywhere.
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