Install on i2o (either FC2 or FC2.90) rel notes didnt work

[John Thompson]

meherenow at darkglobe.org wrote:

> I'm having real problems installing FC2 on a machine with an adaptec 2100S scsi
> raid controller.
> 
> I knew to expect problems after finding the discussion on the mailing list, but
> it seemed to be surmountable. I appear to have reached a brick wall however.
> 
> I get the same results when installing either FC2 or the new beta. According to
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg03906.html I should just
> be able to wget the correct module, insmod it and away I go!
> 
> However either I'm doing something stupid (entirely possible) or this route just
> isn't working for me.
> 
> I extract the module from the correct kernel rpm, wget it across to the target
> machine, do a quick lsmod to see that two existing i2o modules are present, but
> not i2o_proc. So I run:
> 
> # insmod ./i2o_proc.ko

Is there a reason why you don't use "modprobe" instead of "insmod"? 
Modprobe will install any prerequisite modules as well, which may help.

> followed by:
> 
> # lsmod
> 
> but for some reason i2o_proc does not appear! Hence the install fails as it
> cannot find any devices to install on.
> 
> There are no error messages upon running the command and no indication as to
> what is wrong.

Does anything appear in /var/log/messages when you try to load the module?

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)