Re: char-major-6

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> > Aug 14 07:09:21 mkuhar2 modprobe: modprobe: Can't
> > locate module char-major-6
> >
>
> The problem is that it isn't defined...
>
> So, let's see what char-major-6 is:
>
> $ ls -l /dev | grep " 6,"
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   0 Nov 30  2000 lp0
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   1 Nov 30  2000 lp1
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   2 Nov 30  2000 lp2
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   0 Nov 30  2000 par0
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   1 Nov 30  2000 par1
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   2 Nov 30  2000 par2

So that's what the "-x" number value corresponds to ?? I've
ran into those modprobe errors for years and always solved
them with the "off" value like you describe, but never ran
across any explanation of what the number(s) mean.

Hall