Getting command line to do 'modprobe' on Fedora install

[Aaron Gray]

On 29 March 2011 21:51, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:24:33 +0100
> Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I need to get to the command line to do a 'modprobe DAC960' on installing
> > Fedora.
> >
> > Is this possible ?
>
> It should automatically load the module providing it is on the image. It
> could be the autoload is failing for some reason or the driver is broken,
> or its not on the boot image.
>
> Unfortunately the one person who really knew it and looked after it
> (Leonard Zubkoff) died in an accident some years ago. It no longer really
> gets much attention as it's little used and IBM who bought Mylex who
> produced it have long dropped it too.
>
> In fact I think you are the first reference I've seen to it in use for a
> couple of years !
>
> Probably the best strategy is to investigate using a live image and see
> what "dmesg" shows and what occurs if you try and load it. That may give
> the info needed for someone to get it going.


DAC960 works again on F14. It was still broken on F9, not sure about the
gap.

Aaron
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