Installed Mandrake 10.0 with all updates. I edited the /etc/modules.conf file by adding the line
"alias /dev/parport0 ppdev" just as I always have on my previous Mandrake installs to have access to my parallel port scanner. For some reason ppdev is not loading. "insmod ppdev" resullts in an error message > no such file or directory.

I've seen a couple of posts that the 2.6 kernel handles modules differently than 2.4 & that with 2.6 "ppdev" is now a "character device". I've always been able to get my scanner to work by installing the sane-backends & editing the dll.conf & umax_pp.conf files.

How do I solve this problem?