Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (179 mails)

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Derek,

[..elided..]
> Has anyone with a thinkpad found the mwavemd module
> loaded onto their system 
> from the SuSE 7 series distributions? Mine says it
> can't find the module 
> major-10-219. It's in modules.conf but locate and
> find don't locate or find 
> it either.

Just because you have an entry in "/etc/modules.conf"
(often symlinked to "/etc/conf.modules") it does not
mean that it is going to load.

All loadable kernel modules are loaded from the
location:

/lib/modules/[kernel-version]/

e.g.:

/lib/modules/2.2.18/

then, the desired module is loaded thus:

insmod /lib/modules/[kernel-version]/my_file.o

to check that it has loaded, type:

insmod

and you'll get a list of loaded devices.

To unload a device, type:

rmmod /file

Try it by hand, and if it works, I can help you tweak
the startup scripts.

HTH,

Thomas Adam


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Thomas Adam

"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com

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