Re: iomega zip disk (100)

[Bradley Bell <bradleyb@u.washington.edu>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Wright wrote:

> * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install?  If I try to do a
> 'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a
> error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something
> like that) are missing.  It looks like some sort of dynamic linking problem,
> but I don't know enough about linux dynamic linking to diagnose the problem.
> Yet I can put ppa in /etc/modules and it works fine.  I'd rather load and
> unload the parallel ZIP driver dynamically, since I usually connect the
> drive after I've booted.

did you try 'modprobe ppa' instead?  modprobe should automatically load
the modules that ppa is dependent upon.

-Brad