Configuring tramp with tramp-default-method-alist

[Alistair McDonald]

Hello all,

I've installed tramp on my gentoo-linux system, and added these lines to
my .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp/lisp/")
(require 'tramp)
(add-to-list 'tramp-default-method-alist '("altair" "allym" "ssh"))

but I get an error:
Symbol's value as variable is void: tramp-default-method-alist

Any ideas?
tramp.el says ;; Version: $Id: tramp.el,v 2.95 2002/04/10 17:16:25 kaig Exp $
emacs version is 21.3

(I'm following the tramp user manual on http://www.nongnu.org/tramp/)

Thanks,
Alistair
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