[Nottingham] Re joystick, thanks.

[Lee]

Ah, I understand now...I presume when i do a lsmod, you can see what a
modules 'depends' on with a list after it's name, but my driver , when
loaded correctly, does'nt show a list of other modules it depends on?
bizzare-o..... unless I'm mistaken.., or perhap lsmod doesn't show
dependices at all...or pehaps I've just gone crazy. 

Oh, while you here, I'm thinking of bidding on.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=419&item=2153209735

do you think it's safe?, can somnebody lend me a few quid so I can bid
on it, that way I can avoid all the traffic problems created new 'tram
system', ;-)

Cheers,
Lee
'So much to learn, so little to forget'




On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:02, Philip Scott wrote:
> I don't think there is a difference. The problem you're descrbing might be 
> because you're using insmod and not modprobe - insmod installs *only* the 
> module you specify, but the module may rely on others to work correctly. 
> modprobe looks at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep (which I believe is 
> generated by 'depmod') to figure out any dependancies that must be loaded 
> before the specified module, and installs them first. 
> 
> Perhaps the problem is that if you install the module before the boot stage, 
> your modules.dep is not upto date - most boot systems run 'depmod' at some 
> stage. If so, making sure depmod is run before you install the module(with 
> modprobe) should fix the problem.
> 
> Kind Regards,
>  Philip
> 
> On Monday 13 January 2003 12:46 pm, Lee wrote:
> > 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)???? :-(....
> 
> 
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