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Re: modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10



"Jeroen N. Witmond" <jnw@xs4all.nl> writes:

> The problem appeared on my box when I upgraded from the Debian hamm
> kernel 2.0.34 to a 2.0.36 kernel straight from linux. The only
> relevent difference in the configuration of these kernels seems to
> be:
> 
> diff -u /boot/config-2.0.34 /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/.config
>  #
>  # Character devices
>  #
> -CONFIG_SERIAL=m
> +CONFIG_SERIAL=y
> 
> In human language: The Debian 2.0.34 configured the serial support
> as a module, whereas I included it into the 2.0.36 kernel itself.
> It seems that, even when the serial support is included into the
> kernel, 'somebody' still wants to access it as a module, but I can't
> find who, where and why.
> 
> Can somebody explain what is going on?  Thanks in advance.

Please check the contents of your /etc/modules file (the comments at
the begin should explain its purpose).

	Torsten

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