Re: Load kernel module automatically

[Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>]

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 18:27, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:27, Jan Hudec wrote:
........
> > > Kernel does not seek for modules to load in any way. Actually, in usual
> > > installation there are tons of modules compiled an mostly unused. You
> > > must put the insmod command (or better modprobe command) somewhere in
> > > the init scripts. Since I expect your installation is RedHat (the kernel
> > > version looks like a RedHat one), there should already be one a it
> > > should be loading all modules listed in /etc/modules.conf (not sure abou
> > > the exact name - I don't have RedHat).
> > 
> > Isn't that what modules.conf (conf.modules on some) is for though? To
> > have lists of available devices and load modules if their services are
> > used?(i.e. ifup eth0, but eth0 doesn't exist at boot time, so ifup calls
> > a utility that loads the module, then ifup continues to run)
> > 
> The utility is built into the kernel, it's called kmod and uses /etc/modules.conf
> as it's config file....

That's all my point was...:) Thanks!


> 
> Mark
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