Re: USB printer and scanner modules don't load automatically in linux-2.6.0-test10

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <20031124210755.FNIR9968.fed1mtao05.cox.net@bill.ps.uci.edu>,
Meinhard E. Mayer <mmayer@uci.edu> wrote:
| I don't know whether I am supposed to ssend this to any of you or the
| general list.
| I have been using -test9 and -test10 for a while and noticed that the
| modules for my connected USB printer and scanner did not load
| automatically during boot (as they do in kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
| (Fedorea-SC1) or other versions of 2.4.22). 
| The alternatives were to enter 
| sudo modprobe usbpr
| sudo modprobe scanner
| or to compile the drivers into the kernel (which I ultimately did). 
| I could not figure out the correct format for the new /etc/modprobe.conf
| to remedy this; I also compiled the soundcard-driver into the kernel
| since the test9 kernel. 

Before demand loading can work you need to put the path to the module
loader program in /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe (from memory). Yes, that
makes booting a portable kernel using initrd more complex...
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.