Lonni: Per your request for clarity I found some information that might help you and the others help me, from /var/log/messages:
Jan 2 17:11:57 scott modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81 Jan 2 17:20:03 scott syslogd 1.4-0: restart. Jan 2 17:20:05 scott kernel: klogd 1.4-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jan 2 17:20:05 scott kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: Symbol table has incorrect version number. Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: Cannot find map file. Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: Loaded 7 symbols from 1 module. Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-W4L020103 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Thu Jan 2 16:23:29 MST 2003 Here's info on my sound card: Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP' Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total XFS enabled: Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: SGI XFS snapshot 2.4.20-2002-11-29_01:21_UTC with ACLs, quota, no debug enabled My netcard detected: Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002) Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0 Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: tulip0: no phy info, aborting mtable build Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC rev 32 at 0x6800, 00:80:AD:3B:FF:43, IRQ 9. This is where I think my HP card is failing to initialize for the SCSI adapter to ScanJet 4c scanner: Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Jan 2 17:20:06 scott kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 What does this mean: Jan 2 17:20:32 scott modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81 For what it's worth, maybe these can shed some light on my 2.4.20 run difficulties. Scott _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users