Re: [Sheflug] Assorted newbie problems

[Sammy Redshaw <nospam [at] cableinet.co.uk>]

Al Hudson wrote:

> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Sammy Redshaw wrote:
>
> > > You'll need lines like these:
> > >
> > > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

> > thats there what nexts?

> see attached doc please




> Similar lines for the Zip & printer ;)) As I'm at a WinPC, I'm afraid I
> have no idea off the top off my head what to put...
>
> > umm checked /var/log/messages it getting the printer first then the zip drive

no in  boot but it is parport lp then zip this is reading fine  i sent you the
conf.module file what or where do i need to find
information on editing the conf.modules file

>
>
> When you modprobe them, or when?
>
> > can you have a look at my conf.module and how do you load the changes into
> > the boot sequence?
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand your question? If you alter conf.modules,
> you alter (part of) the boot sequence. The boot sequence in linux is more
> complicated under Linux than, say, MS-DOS - there is no equivilent of the
> autoexec.bat. init is essentially what starts up Linux, but there are
> several different bits which get loaded at different times, and it varies
> from system to system. For example, some init scripts are stored in
> /sbin/init.d - other systems have them in /etc/init.d, I believe...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
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alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter
alias char-major-107 3dfx
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330