Re: tlug: ppa, -> success!!! (modprobe/insmod syntax)

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ulrike Schmidt wrote:

> A friend of mine told me that in order to mount the zip-drive I had to do
> "insmod ppa" first. When I got the new harddrive and RH6.1 it did not work
> anymore, so this friend told me to use modprobe instead. That did not work
> either. I think I also tried "insmod parport" today in desperation ...
> Sorry, I really don't know what I am doing, although I think I understand
> it a little better now...

insmod requires you to give the full path to the module file as an
argument, whereas modprobe takes only the module name, ie:

insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/foo.o
modprobe foo


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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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