Re: [ILUG] Re: Subject: [ILUG] Best laptop ?

From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Fri 14 May 1999 - 16:24:38 IST


On Fri, 14 May 1999 Ruairi.Newman at domain deloitte.ie wrote:

  

  btw, anyone know what I did wrong moving to kernel 2.2.7 from 2.0.36 that's
  causing my message log to fill up with: "modprobe: can't locate module
  char-major-6" ? and what the likely repercussions are?

Hi ruari,

If you ever get messages like that, eg char-major.. block-major.. you
can find out what it is by looking in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

char-major-6 is the lpt port. so you probably didn't compile in
parport support, or you havn't got it set up correctly in
conf.modules. if you have it compiled as a module try adding:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc irq=7 dma=3 io=0x378

if you've got a standard ECP/EPP port on lpt1. if it's just
bi-directional, remove the irq and dma arguments.

if you still get the messages. put:

alias char-major-6 parport_lowlevel

in conf.modules aswell.
  
regards,

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