Re: Modules/devices

[Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>]

> >  /dev/ttyS1: Device not configured
> >  same for 2,3,5
> 
> this probably means that whatever serial device you have has different
> major/minor numbers. ttyS is only for 16550A-like drivers, see devices.txt
> in the kernel docs.

 That file does not really help.

 I solved this for now by explicitly listing only ttyS0 in
 /etc/init.d/setserial.

> >  Configuring network interfaces: modprobe: Can't locate module dummy0
> >  SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> >  [repeats a number of times with different SIO...]
> 
> it might be a good idea to have this either builtin or as module. Read
> the help entry for netwrok drivers/dummy.

 The dummy module is builtin. However, the *dummy0* module, whatever it
 is, is not.

 I solved this by s/dummy0/dummy/ in /etc/network/interfaces.