Mandrake 10 ppdev module will not load

Tuzinor · 06-10-2004, 03:24 PM

Installed Mandrake 10.0 with all updates. I edited the /etc/modules.conf file by adding the line
"alias /dev/parport0 ppdev" just as I always have on my previous Mandrake installs to have access to my parallel port scanner. For some reason ppdev is not loading. "insmod ppdev" resullts in an error message > no such file or directory.

I've seen a couple of posts that the 2.6 kernel handles modules differently than 2.4 & that with 2.6 "ppdev" is now a "character device". I've always been able to get my scanner to work by installing the sane-backends & editing the dll.conf & umax_pp.conf files.

How do I solve this problem?

dorregaray · 11-22-2004, 03:08 AM

use modprobe ppdev instead of insmod... then you may chmod a+rw /dev/parports/0 and the scanner will work.

but problem is still the same - the ppdev written in /etc/modules.conf won't start at boot time so each time i want to scan i have to do this two things. any suggestions how to force ppdev to be started each time system starts?
i'm using up to date mandrake 10 too...

dorregaray · 11-22-2004, 04:01 AM

i've just solved this problem in that way:
i made a file which contains:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
modprobe ppdev
chmod a+rw /dev/parports/0

i named it skaner (which means scanner in polish) and put in /etc/init.d with attribute executable.
next i've created symlink to this file in /etc/rc3.d and /etc/rc5.d called S99skaner
so each time system starts, ppdev is loaded. everything works fine. i hope that help at your case to.