Re: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris the Elder writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm using kernel 2.3.99-pre6, devfs-patch-v165,
> devfsd-v1.3.8 and modutils-2.3.11-1.  I have built
> ppp and serial as modules.  I found that I needed to
> put:
> -------------------
> alias ppp0 ppp_generic
> -------------------
> in /etc/modules.conf, to get anything started.
> 
> Why didn't devfsd work this out without the extra hint?

It's not devfsd which has to know about this, but modload has to know,
and that's set up in /etc/modules.conf. I've updated the sample
modules.conf in Documentation/filesystems/devfs.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Current:   rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx