Initializing my Slack, I receive the following error message:
request module: failed sbin/modprobe --char-major-6-0 error=256.
Maybe, char-major-6 refers to the printer
If I use an alias, adding in /etc/rd.c/modules.conf
alias char-major-6 lp
I continua to receive the error message.

Can anyone help me?
Thanx a lot!

M.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:34:16 GMT,
Mauro Sacchetto <mauro.sacchetto@tin.it> wrote:
> Initializing my Slack, I receive the following error message:

> request module: failed sbin/modprobe --char-major-6-0 error=256.

> Maybe, char-major-6 refers to the printer

You can find out what char-major-6-0 refers to by looking in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. It turns out that
char-major-6-0 does indeed refer to a printer, or specifically the
parallel printer device /dev/lp0.

> If I use an alias, adding in /etc/rd.c/modules.conf

Do you mean /etc/modules.conf?

> alias char-major-6 lp
> I continua to receive the error message.

Does your printer work at the moment? Is it on /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1? If
it's on lp1, you can just add 'alias char-major-6-0 off' to get rid of
the messages. If it's on lp0, try 'alias char-major-6-0 lp' in
/etc/modules.conf.

If you have just compiled a kernel, or have modified kernel modules in
some way, try 'depmod -a' as root.


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* Mauro Sacchetto <mauro.sacchetto@tin.it> writes:

> Initializing my Slack, I receive the following error message:
> request module: failed sbin/modprobe --char-major-6-0 error=256.
> Maybe, char-major-6 refers to the printer
> If I use an alias, adding in /etc/rd.c/modules.conf
> alias char-major-6 lp
> I continua to receive the error message.

Well, if you added it to /etc/rc.d/modules.conf, I'm not surprised.
That should be /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modprobe.conf if you're
running a 2.6 kernel with module-init-tools).

I can't remember if the old 2.4 kernels with modutils supports this,
but you could try...

alias char-major-6-* lp


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