On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:06 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
> James Sparenberg wrote on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:32:04PM -0800 :
> > $ hardrake2 & (the and is optional)
> > modprobe: Can't locate module serial
> > Please wait while probing serial ports...
> > rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded
> > modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe
> > modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe
> > rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded
> > Now a check of the modules directory shows that yes indeed serial.o.gz
> > is not present.....
>
> Older kernels had it as a seperate module.  Current kernels are built
> differently.
>
> > generic_serial.so.gz and what happend to parport_probe or did it ever
> > exist.
>
> Add this to modules.conf
>  alias parport_probe parport
> Then that error should go away.  Again, older methods of doing things.
> Not everybody has the luxury of running current release versions like we
> do.
>
> Blue skies...                 Todd

BTW Todd... for what it is worth even though I KNOW I have serial ports it 
still doesn't show up in the hardrake2 info. I'm guess a bug somewhere. ??

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