I reinstalled and now I dont have modprobe

kennyog · 05-29-2004, 12:36 PM

I reinstalled Fedora core2 and when going to install my bttv capture card driver I typed modprobe but it says "bash: modprobe: command not found" Can someone tell me how i can reinstall this? I have looked for a tar or rpm with it but cant seem to find it online.

Thanks for the help ahead of time.

xlord · 05-29-2004, 12:38 PM

locate modprobe... it might be in /usr/bin/modprobe

kennyog · 05-29-2004, 12:39 PM

i used locate modprobe and this is what it returned, but i went to the etc/ and sbin/ directory and typed modprobe and it still says "bash: modprobe: command not found"

Also just to be sure i downloaed and installed modutils 2.4.26 from ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux...26-16.i386.rpm and it said it was already installed but still, when i run modprobe i get the bash cant be found messege.

Quote:

[kennyog@localhost bin]$ locate modprobe
/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf
/sbin/modprobe
/etc/log.d/scripts/services/modprobe
/etc/log.d/conf/services/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf.dist
/etc/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf~
/initrd/bin/modprobe
/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.old.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/modprobe.conf.5.gz
[kennyog@localhost bin]$ cd /sbin/modprobe
bash: cd: /sbin/modprobe: Not a directory
[kennyog@localhost bin]$ cd /
[kennyog@localhost /]$ cd sbin/modprobe
bash: cd: sbin/modprobe: Not a directory
[kennyog@localhost /]$ cd sbin
[kennyog@localhost sbin]$ locate modprobe
/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf
/sbin/modprobe
/etc/log.d/scripts/services/modprobe
/etc/log.d/conf/services/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf.dist
/etc/modprobe.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf~
/initrd/bin/modprobe
/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.old.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/modprobe.conf.5.gz

Pete M · 05-29-2004, 07:16 PM

kennyog

Think you will find that you have to be root to use modprobe

As root

Code:

# /sbin/modprobe

Should do the trick

Pete