[plug] Problem with Tekram scsi driver

[Simon Scott]

	Wow. Ive learnt more about modules in 4 emails than I had in 2 years
of just trying stuff.

	modinfo. cool bananas.


	While Im in learning mode, can someone give a short description of
what the difference between .so and .a libraries are, anything special you
need to do in C to 'make a dynamic library', and maybe how it all relates
back to ld and ldconfig?

	I got Xine down the other day and libXv was a .a file, but Xine
requires .so.... so it was a magical command in ld and suddenly I had a .so
(from memory) and everything worked. ldconfig and everything sprang into
life.





	From:	Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns.aus.com> on 15-06-2001 10:59 AM
	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange,
plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	cc:	 

	Subject:	Re: [plug] Problem with Tekram scsi driver

	At 10:44 AM 6/15/01 +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
	>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Phil Steege wrote:
	>
	>> On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:17 pm, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
wrote:
	>> >
	>> > Try useing modprobe tmscsim as that will intellegently load any
	>> > prerequisate modules.  (you may or may not need to depmod -a
before using
	>> > modprobe)
	>>
	>> I did both the "depmod -a" and then modprobe tmscsim.
	>> Here are the results.
	>> I am using RedHat 7.1  2.4.2-2 kernel.
	>>
	>> [root at localhost pappo]# /sbin/modprobe tmscsim
	>> /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/scsi/tmscsim.o: init_module:
No such
	>> device
	>> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including
	>> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
	>
	>
	>Perhaps you should specify the iqr etc etc for the device.

	You can find out what parameters the driver accepts with the modinfo
command.

	Eg, modinfo -p /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/scsi/tmscsim.o


	Regards
	-------
	Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
	Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member,
www.ethereal.com)
	Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
	Author, Special Edition, Using Samba





**********************************************************************
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and 
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they   
are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify 
the system manager.

This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by 
MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.

www.mimesweeper.com
**********************************************************************