[CLUE-Tech] modeprobe char-major-145

[David Anselmi]

Try ls -l in /dev

If there are links there, follow them until you find the files.  You
want a line that starts with a c (a character device).  Then, in between
the group name and the date there are two numbers.  The first is the
major number (which maps to a device driver) - you want 145.  Look at
the file name and see if you can guess what kind of device it is (tty,
disk, etc.)  Now try to guess what module the kernel uses to access that
device.

You might try looking at kernel docs, especially those about modules, to
see if there's a shortcut to getting your answer.  If all else fails,
there's surely a header file (that's a .h file in the kernel source
code) that tells what kind of devices are major number 145.

You might also look for docs on modeprobe (or is it modprobe?) and see
how to tell it not to probe for device 145.

This is a lot closer to the iron than most people care to get.  Can you
tell I know just enough to be dangerous?  :-)

Cyberclops wrote:

> It's not in that "modules.conf" file
>
> The command you gave me just comes up blank.
>
> Grant Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Cyberclops wrote:
> > >
> > > I get this message in SuSE 7.1:
> > >
> > > "Can't locate module char-major-145"
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what this might be referring to?

> > Don't know, my system doesn't have that device, but....
> >
> > cat /etc/modules.conf|grep char-major-145
> >
> > Will tell you what is happening.