[plug] Modprobe question

[Adam Ashley]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 16:22 +0800, Michael Collard wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 15:54 +0800, Adam Ashley wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 15:47 +0800, Michael Collard wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > On fedora you want /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> That isn't what hes after. Whats being asked is the file that specifies
> modules to be loaded on startup. /etc/modprobe.conf doesn not do this.
> 

ahh sorry misread the question, in that case there isnt one on
redhat/fedora.

Your two choices are to edit modprobe.conf to alias what ever is being
accessed where that module is needed (ie like the alias for network
cards, alias eth0 rtl8139), or place the modprobe command in rc.local.

Adam