No floppy device in FC5

[Douglas Phillipson]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:39AM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
>  > When you say, "It should just work", does than mean a file manager 
>  > should pop up when a floppy is inserted and a mount point created?
> 
> AFAIK, you have to mount it by hand, though as I said it's been
> a while since I've had to resort to using a floppy, so things
> may have changed (though from the sounds of things, they haven't)
> 
>  > It doesn't and there are no /dev/fd? devices.  There are some entries in a 
>  > directory called /dev/fd, which don't appear to be floppy related:
> 
> They're your per-process file-descriptors.
> You should have a /dev/fd0
> does lsmod | grep floppy show anything?
> 
> 		Dave
> 
lsmod | grep floppy returns nothing.  modprobe floppy returns:

FATAL: Error inserting floppy 
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): No such 
device

The kernel module is there and the floppy works fine under that OTHER OS.

Doug P