[olug] modules.conf

Fri Aug 22 21:50:07 UTC 2003

If I make up an alias, i.e. alias easycon stallion, and put that in the
modules.conf file, modprobe does not load it.  I verify that by doing an
lsmod and do not see the module loaded.

If I do a modprobe -c|less, I do see the alias and module listed, but
modprobe did not load the module.  In other words, it did see my entry in
the modules.conf, but didn't load the module into the kernel.
i.e.

# Generated by modprobe -c (2.4.14)
path[boot]=/lib/modules/boot
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.18-3
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4
path[kernel]=/lib/modules/kernel
path[fs]=/lib/modules/fs
path[net]=/lib/modules/net
.
.
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usbdevfs usbcore
alias easycon stallion    <= Module showes up here.=>
# Options

Now, Cyclades is listed as:
alias char-major-19 cyclades
alias char-major-20 cyclades

so I thought that I would follow this format.  The major device number for
the Stallion is:  24.
I tried alias char-major-24 stallion.

Modprobe still does not load the modules into the kernel.

So far the only way that I've been able to get the module to install at
bootup is by placing it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  i.e.  insmod stallion.
This works, but I don't thing that this is the proper way to do it.

As far as Computone.  Yes, Computone is dead.  We have customers that still
use it.  We can get replacement parts, but its difficult.  If possible, we
switch our customers to Digi. Also, the customers that we have using
Computone are on SCO.  So far we only have customers using Digi and
Stallion on Linux.

Thank you.

Daryl Rose
Scantron Service Group
Unix Support Specialist
drose at scantron.com
1-800-228-3628 x3061

                      "Mike Peterson"                                                                                                           
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                      08/22/2003 02:34 PM                                                                                                       
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If you do an lsmod and match that to what is in modules.conf the stallion.o
might now exist.
If not, use the same format as the other items in modules.conf using the
info for how the alais is matched up in lsmod.

Computone is out of business from I have found.
I use Computone and Equinox on SCO but am going to use on Equinox on Linux.

Do you use Computone on Linux or just UNIX?

----- Original Message -----
From: <drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] modules.conf

>
> The controller card is an interal card, with an external module.  The
> controller is a Stallion EasyConnection 8/64 PCI.
>
> Stallion only has drivers for <= 2.2 kernel.  They say to use the kernel
> built in modules, stallion.o, for 2.4 kernels.
>
> If I do a insmod stallion, they load just fine.  But I want to be able to
> have the module load on bootup, i.e. modules.conf.  I've never put a
module
> in modules.conf by hand before.  If I've ever installed something that
> required a module to be loaded, an install program put it in the
> modules.conf, and I've never thought twice about it.
>
> As far as using Equinox, this is a customer requirenment.  Our customers
> use Digi, Equinox, Stallion, and Computone.
>
> Daryl Rose
> Scantron Service Group
> Unix Support Specialist
> drose at scantron.com
> 1-800-228-3628 x3061
>
>
>
>                       "Mike Peterson"
>                       <mpeterson at mail.charlesfur        To:       "Omaha
Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
>                       niture.com>                       cc:
>                       Sent by:                          Subject:  Re:
[olug] modules.conf
>                       olug-bounces at olug.org
>
>
>                       08/22/2003 12:23 PM
>                       Please respond to Omaha
>                       Linux User Group
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Is it a internal board or an externally connected network device?
>
> Did it not come with or have available for download Linux install
software?
>
> Did the software not already install the required module?
>
> Does the customer require stallion?
>
> Is this being moved from a UNIX system?
>
> I use Equinox for Linux, Windows, and UNIX.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:41 AM
> Subject: [olug] modules.conf
>
>
> > I want to add a multiport serial board (stallion) to the modules.conf
> file.
> > Do I make up an alias name for it? Or is there predefined aliases that
I
> > have to use?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Daryl Rose
> > Scantron Service Group
> > Unix Support Specialist
> > daryl_rose at scantron.com
> > 1-800-228-3628 x3061
> >
> >
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