On Thursday 23 September 2004 04:57, Pavel R wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>Greetings; >> >>I just made the usb driver for the prolific pl2303 serial-usb >>interface a module, and I added the line: >>alias char-major-188 pl2303 >>and rebooted. But I still had to modprobe it in by hand after the >>reboot. >> >>Whats the usual syntax for that in modprobe.conf? > >Try to line alias char-major-188-* pl12303. Sometimes kernel refers > to module by specifying major and minor device number - >char-major-xx-minor-yy. You can also look /var/log/messages and see > what module kernel fails to load. > >Pavel. Duh! Thanks, I didn't note that the '-*' convention was used elsewhere in that same file. Sometimes I think I need a cluebat application :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
