Re: modprobe warning

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

"G. Kapetanios" <gk205@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Today I upgraded the menu package to 1.3-2 . Since then I get every half
> minute a
> syslogd warning saying that modprobe can't locate the char-major-6 module. 
> I have a custom kernel ( 2.0.29 ) and no such module. Anybody can tell me
> what is going on ??

According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, the char device
with major number 6 is the printer device.  I can't see what
installing menu would have to do with this - maybe it tried to print
something?  Do you have the printer driver in the kernel or available
as a module (lp.o)?  Is printing working, if it should be?

If you want to turn off the messages, edit /etc/conf.modules and
follow the instructions near the top.  (alias char-major-6 off)

-- 
                Carey Evans  <*>  c.evans@clear.net.nz

"Encryption renamed to Encode to avoid US regulation problems"
                     - include/linux/wireless.h in Linux 2.0.30 kernel


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