fubared modprobe.conf

[Pavel R]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>Greetings;
>
>I just made the usb driver for the prolific pl2303 serial-usb 
>interface a module, and I added the line:
>alias char-major-188 pl2303
>and rebooted.  But I still had to modprobe it in by hand after the 
>reboot.
>
>Whats the usual syntax for that in modprobe.conf?
>  
>
Try to  line alias char-major-188-* pl12303. Sometimes kernel refers to 
module by specifying major and minor device number -  
char-major-xx-minor-yy. You can also look /var/log/messages and see what 
module kernel fails to load.

Pavel.