[plug] Modprobe question

[Michael Collard]

Under Mandrake there is a script that looks for a modules and
modprobe.preload file and modprobes the modules one at a time. There
will be something similar in Fedora. In Mandrake, the script
is /etc/rc.d/rc.modules which looks for modprobe.preload first and then
modules after. I would imagine fedora would have the same type of
script.

Cheers
Michael Collard

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 14:49 +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> 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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