[plug] Modprobe question

[Chris Griffin]

No go for all so far, except the rc.local option.

Both /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.preload seem to have been ignored?


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:32:51 +0800, Jim Householder
<nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:06:05 +0800, Mike Holland
> > <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >>Brad Campbell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>which the system seems happy about.  And yet I still have to do the
> >>>>"modprobe advansys" command after booting.
> >>>>Is there something I am missing to make this all happen automagically?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Don't know about Fedora. In debian I'd
> >>>echo advansys >> /etc/modules
> >>>
> >>>Brad
> >>
> >>With a 2.6 kernel, you might want:
> >>
> >># /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> >>
> >>Of course, you could always add the "modprobe advansys" command to
> >>/etc/rc.local .
> >>
> >
> >
> I'm using MDK 10.1, and have found the following:
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit invokes /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
>     which invokes modprobe for each module name found in /etc/modules.
> 
> In my case, /etc/modules contains bttv and nvidia.
> 
> The comment in rc.sysinit indicates invoking rc.modules is for backward
> compatibility with VARs, what ever that is, which says to me it is
> subject to change.
> 
> HTH
> Jim
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