[wplug] CDRW problem

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Friday 04 October 2002 10:12, Henry Umansky wrote:
> That worked!!!!!!!   What exactly did running "/sbin/depmod -a" do??  And
> what sort of module errors did RH 7.2 have??
>
> -Henry
>

The particular one is a module configuration inconstency which most RH7.2 
installations "enjoyed".

Reading the man page of depmod sheds light on the effects of the command:

Depmod creates a "Makefile"-like dependency file, based on
       the  symbols  it  finds in the set of modules mentioned on
       the command line or from the directories specified in  the
       configuration file.  This dependency file is later used by
       modprobe to automatically load the correct module or stack
       of modules.

       The normal use of depmod is to include the line

       /sbin/depmod -a

       somewhere  in  the rc-files in /etc/rc.d, so that the cor-
       rect module dependencies  will  be  available  immediately
       after  booting the system.  Note that the option -a is now
       optional.  For boot-up purposes, the option  -q  might  be
       more  appropriate  since  that  makes  depmod silent about
       unresolved symbols.


Cheers

- -A

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