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I have been trying to run the modprobe command for a while now but each time I get a error as follows:

bash: modprobe: command not found

I tried the locate command and It came back as follows:

[root@localhost namich]# locate modprobe
/etc/modprobe.conf.dist
/etc/modprobe.conf
/etc/log.d/conf/services/modprobe.conf
/etc/log.d/scripts/services/modprobe
/usr/share/man/man5/modprobe.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz
/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf
/sbin/modprobe

based on these i can see the directories are there, so why is my system reporting command not found. Are these not default command within the OS.



Thanks


intel 3gig- Perl D865 board
512 mb ram
40 gig HD
FC1

It's not in your users path. Either add the /sbin to your $PATH or type it out fully..

/sbin/modprobe <module-name>

are you trying to run modprobe as a user other than root?