[svlug] Help! - modprobe going crazy (fwd)

[Rob Walker]

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From: Erik Steffl <steffl at bigfoot.com>
Sender: erik at earthlink.net
To: rob at varesearch.com
Subject: Re: [svlug] Help! - modprobe going crazy
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Rob Walker wrote:
...
> what you need to do to shut them up is to put a line in your
> /etc/conf.modules which looks like the following:
> 
> alias char-major-6 off
> 
> but I *highly* recommend that you find out what char-major-6 *is*, and
> whether or not you can be secure in turning it off, or whether you
> need to fix the problem, instead of shutting it up.

  the char major 6 seems to be a parallel port, if the driver cannot be
found it means that you (the person who initially asked the question -
Aaron) have a kernel that does not have this particular driver compiled
in (or compiled as a module), if you are not planning to use the
parallel port it is OK to switch it off as Rob suggested, otherwise you
need to recompilekernel and add support for parallel port (as a module,
if you want).

  the fact that you get the complaints suggests that someone is trying
to use parallel port...

	erik
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