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Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 15:39:59 -0500
From: David Mehringer <dmehring@astro.uiuc.edu>
To: keith <kspeedy@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: pctel-2.4.x
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On Sun, 20 May 2001, keith wrote:

> I have the pctel modem working on-line. I made a stupid mistake, I would
> like to pass on so other newbies will not do the same. the readme  at item
> 8) says " Type "insmod ptserial" and "insmod pctel".  I did exactly that, it
> did not work.  After some trial & error, I found that "insmod -f
> ptserial.o" and "insmod pctel.o" were the actual commands that worked. 

Why did you need the -f flag?  If you built these modules by hand, I
wouldn't think you would need this.

> Now I have another question.  Each time I boot, I have to reinstall these
> modules manually.  Is there a line I can put in "etc/rc.d/rc.local"  or some
> other place, that will cause these modules to load automatically at boot.
> Thanks for your help!

How about 

/sbin/insmod pctel
/sbin/insmod [-f] ptserial

in rc.local?  Works for me at least.
Dave