[Nottingham] Re joystick, thanks.

[Lee]

Talking of Modprobe, insmod n all, can somebody tell me what the
difference between loading a modules after the boot stage, and loading a
module before. I have this wireless network driver, which somehow, with
a lot of fiddling I got working, but if I load the same driver at the
multiuser run level with insmod, I can't get it to work, it just appears
with lsmod, as (unused)???? :-(....

Cheers,
Lee


On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 02:33, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, jason wrote:
> 
> > Just to say thankyou to Lee and Alan.
> > I need to look up the difference between insmod and modprobe and work through 
> > the things you've sent but I'm sure it'll get me there in the end.
> 
> I seem to have missed this thread and may get in touch with you off list
> about sorting the problem. Modprobe effectively resolves any module
> dependencies before loading each module required by a particular module
> (it does this using the dependency information generated by depmod from
> symbols within the modules themselves). In recent kernels it is also
> possible for a device to dynamically cause dependencies to be loaded.
> 
> > lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz: init_module: 
> > No such device
> 
> The detection code is not finding the joystick device (is it correct?).
> 
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including 
> > invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> 
> Which port is it on, where is it, etc.?
> 
> >       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> > modprobe: insmod 
> > /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o.gz failed
> > modprobe: insmod ns558 failed
> 
> Please send the contents of the relevent portions of those log files.
> 
> I happen to be revising the joystick driver code right now (not for
> that device) for interest and also as it may come up in an exam today :-)
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 
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