Jude, All the pieces needed to support CD writing have been included in my Slackware distributions for several versions back now. Sometimes when a module does not exist it is because that particular driver was compiled into the kernel instead of as a module. That is the case with the driver for my network card, and also for the card that Nick was asking about earlier, as far as I know. Also, there should be no need to guess about the device name for your CD. Examine the boot messages available with dmesg and very early in that sequence you will find out exactly what the device name of your CD is. That is the name you will use on your boot parameter line. I got my CD writer working with very little difficulty by reading the docs and man pages that came with the cdrecord package. I chose the path of recompiling the kernel without the ide cdrom driver, although nowadays I have the ide cdrom driver included as well as scsi cdrom emulation and scsi generic. I solve this problem with a lilo option of the sort you described and everything works great. Chuck On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote: > there appears to be no modprobe syntax that's valid for passing parameters > to ide-scsi. modprobe ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi got back invalid > parameters messages. What I will do is to try a boot in with hdc=ide-scsi > hdd=ide-scsi then modprobe ide-scsi after logon. That may work if that > sr-mod.o file really isn't needed. -- Jude > <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (39% of Full) So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
