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Subject: Re: load kernel module at startup
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On 04/20/2011 08:31 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:25:38AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/11/2011 02:38 AM, Gerard van den Bosch wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to modprobe my wireless driver kernel module at startup 
>>> automatically.
>>>
>>> This works when I generate a rootfs and then boot up the first time so 
>>> the modules file gets generated and then I can manually add the kernel 
>>> module in that file and then reboot.
>>>
>>> When I look in the manpage of update-modules it states that a config 
>>> file should be added in /etc/modutils but that directory is not in my 
>>> rootfs.
>>>
>>> So I was wondering what I have to do to get /etc/modutils directory or 
>>> an other way to get the kernel module loaded at startup.
>>>
>>> I am using the Poky 4.0 Laverne release.
>>
>> I believe you can just add the name of the module to:
>>
>> /etc/modules
>>
>> Can you try that?
> 
> module_autoload_module_name to do that, is not supported in Poky?

I am not familiar with this technique.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel