From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: G Anna Subject: Re: char-major-6 Date: 20 Apr 2002 18:26:26 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <0204191440500C.04062@unix.pa3gcu> Reply-To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0204191440500C.04062@unix.pa3gcu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:40:50 +0000 > From: Richard Adams > Subj: Re: char-major-6 [snip] > I've only seen one reply to this mail, i will try and explain whats > happening and possably shed some light on the other discussion about > devices not being found. That supposedly mean that I should have got one more mail on this. But I haven't. Yours was the only mail I got and it had all the help I needed. Thanks. > The above message is saying that the program modprobe cannot find a > module called "lp" which is char-major-6 (to answer your question), > now either you configured your kernel without lp support or the > needed modules were not installed beforehand, those are; parport and > parport_pc if those are loaded (can be seen with the command > 'lsmod') then you did not configure your kernel with lp module > support. I set the CONFIG_PARPORT, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1 and CONFIG_PRINTER to 'm' and recompiled the kernel. Now everything is working fine. ;-) Thank you very much for the help. > Or it could be that IRQ 7 is in use by some other device, check that > with the command 'cat /proc/interrupts'. Thankfully, my problem wasn't that difficult! (much snipped away) Cheers, anna -- Get your free e-mail account at http://www.linuxmail.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs