Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:48:03 +0100 | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.19 && ppa: total lockup. No problem with 2.2.17 |
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:52:28PM +0200, Juan wrote:
> Tim Waugh escribió: > > > > Could you build a kernel without SMP support and see if the problem > > still happens? > Without SMP support, the machine doesn't hang but I can't load the ppa > module. > See messages below. [...] > [root@localhost /root]# modprobe ppa > ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.2.x) > WARNING - no ppa compatible devices found. > As of 31/Aug/1998 Iomega started shipping parallel > port ZIP drives with a different interface which is > supported by the imm (ZIP Plus) driver. If the > cable is marked with "AutoDetect", this is what has > happened. > scsi : 0 hosts. > /lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
That's really strange. Does anyone else see this problem with ppa in 2.2.19? The only change should be to the _error_ path; it shouldn't make things that once worked not work.
> > You could remove this line, just to see if it makes a difference (it > > shouldn't, but it might). > I will try this tomorrow.
I take it that it had no effect?
> > > messages on screen, doesn't it? > > > > Better is something like 'dmesg -n 8'. > OK.
How about this? Did you see messages on the screen on the SMP kernel with 'dmesg -n 8' set when you load ppa?
Tim. */ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |