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Old 07-08-2005, 09:26 PM   #1
arunatmac
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Insmod commad error


Hi,
recently i have installed FC 4 on my Toshiba laptop. to make my wireless wrok i installed and my laptop detects the wireless card now but when i tried to load the modules using ismod command it says
bash: insmod: command not found

Please help me out.

Thank you
 
Old 07-08-2005, 10:05 PM   #2
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First, you should use modprobe instead of insmod to load kernel modules. Second, are you logged on as root and do you have the /sbin directory in your PATH (i.e. does it show up when you type "echo $PATH")? Try typing the full path to run it:

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/sbin/modprobe
 
  


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