On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > Dear Deianers, > > Just intalled rex (files downloaded via dpkg-ftp on the 4th and 5th > Dec from ftp.debian.org). The installation was very smooth and things > are mostly working. I have the following questions however. > > - When I am offered to install additional drivers (modules), how > may I find out what options does a module take and its syntaxes? > This information would make the loading of modules A LOT easier. > In particular does anyone know how to specify base address and irq of > the 3c509 > > - I get the following at start-up > > Configuring serial ports..../dev/cua0: No such device > Done. > /dev/cua0: No such device > /dev/cua1: No such device > /dev/cua2: No such device > /dev/cua3: No such device > > The same with debian 1.1 on my other machine. Despite the > warnings the ports seem to work.
You probably have serial support as a module. Unless you uncomment the "auto" line in /etc/modules, kerneld is not loaded at the time the above errors occur. Uncomment the auto line and things should initialize ok. Luck, Dwarf ------------ -------------- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask -------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]