Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[Michael.Salmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Salmon)]

+----- On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:07:48 CDT, Rich Bendorf writes:
| This hasn't hit the group in awhile, but I just upgraded from 6.1 to 6.2 and
| lost my zip drive.  I finally got it working in 6.1, but don't remember
| exactly how.  I have all the articles and info I could find on the
| web...reams of paper and just want to ask the group before I pull out all
| the archives.
| 
| When I do dmesg I get:
| .
| .
| scsi : 0 hosts
| scsi : detected total.
| Partition check:
| Had: hda1 hda2 hda3
| VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
| .
| .
| i.e. the zip drive does not come up. (it does work in DOS and Win98 though)
| 
| also when I run insmod ppa I get the "unresolved symbols" messages...also
| with insmod imm and insmod lp.
| 
| What am I doing wrong?   Any suggestions would be appreciated.

My understand is that running insmod isn't particularly wise as it only
inserts a single module, modprobe is the beast to use. All the parallel 
port modules use a common module under them, modprobe understands that, 
insmod doesn't.

/Michael

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