Re: need "sr_mod" ?

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

Paul E Condon wrote:

> I am new to Debian. I have just installed 2.2rm4 from in net. Now I want
> to get my CR writer working. I had it working under RedHat 6.2 on this
> same machine. I had gotten it working by following the Quickstart
> directions in the CD-Writing HOWTO. Now that doesn't work and I have to
> probe a deeper. 
>
> I have gone through the steps of the quickstart individually and found
> that they call for the installation of a module called "sr_mod". This is
> supposed to be support for scsi cdrom devices. I have looked for
> "sr_mod" in the package list of dselect and on the package contests list
> at www.debian.org. I can't find it in either. Do I need to download the
> kernel source and "make modules" or is there a more immediate solution?
> (like maybe sr_mod is called something else in Debian ? )
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul

sr_mod.o is a kernel module. "modprobe sr_mod" to load it into your 
running kernel. If you don't have it in your kernel-image package, go to 
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and use search engine at the 
bottom of the page to find a kernel-image that has it.

I hope this helps.

--
Jerome