Re: Help me

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Jahan Zeb wrote:

> I am trying to configure Specialix I/O8+ card on my machine. Now the problem I am facing is that I coudln't able to load the module driver for Specialix I/O8+ card. I have tried different options but still unsuccessful, 
> What I know bout this Specialix I/O8+ card is that this device has the driver in RedHat 9 under the directory /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/char/specialix.o
> And If I load this module at the root prompt according to the following command, then it works good.
>  
> # insmod specialix
>  
> But it works till the machine is rebooted, when I reboot the machine, then it disappears from the Linux kernel. So the problem is that 
> How I can permamnently load this module in the Redhat 9 kernel.


You'll want to edit your /etc/modules.conf file, and add an alias line.

It probably will look like this:

alias char-major-75 specialix


That will load the driver module when it is needed.


See:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0003.2/0017.html

and perhaps google for 'specialix char-major'

-- 
 Arend