On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 17:14, Kevin White wrote: > Comrades, > > Until today in order to use my Zip250 drive ( external parralel ) on Linux > i've had to "su" to root and used "modprobe imm" on each boot of my machine. > I've then had to manually mount the drive as /dev/sda4. > > I upgraded to KDE2.2.2 this morning and was suprised to see the appearance of > a "Mount Zip250" icon appear on my desktop , despite never having set such a > thing up before. It doesn't work 100% though , because i still need to > "modprobe imm" on each boot before it will work. > > Is there a way i can get the "modprobe imm" to happen automatically and then > have my ZIp250 available at only the click of a mouse? > There should be a file/dir called rc.local in /etc/ /etc/inid.d/ somewhere. that file/dir contains your start up scripts. Add modprobe imm to file and it should do it automagically.
The file is distro dependant since nobody listens to the FHS anymore but it should be in /etc somewhere hth david > Cheers, > > KW > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
