On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:35:56AM +0100, T. Ribbrock wrote: > Hi all, > > in my FC1 box, I've had an Adaptec SCSI controller for quite some time > (first a 2940U2W, now a 29160) - all is working fine. > To be able to use my Umax Powerlook 2000 SCSI scanner, I've added a > second SCSI card, a generic Symbios 53c810 card. The second card was > detected and configured by kudzu and the following entry was added to > /etc/modules.conf : > > alias scsi_hostadapter1 ncr53c8xx > > However, on boot, the Symbios card is not detected and no driver is > added. Once I run "modprobe -a scsi_hostadapter1" manually after booting > has completed, the card and the scanner are correctly detected and work > just fine. > > Hence my question: Why does that entry in /etc/modules.conf not work? Have you tried rebuilding your initial ramdisk (via mkinitrd)? It reads the /etc/modules.conf file and loads the SCSI drivers into the initrd. > > Cheerio, > > Thomas > -- Regards, Jamie Wellnitz Jamie.Wellnitz@xxxxxxxxxx > ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <=== > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org > "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
