Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Jun 2002 05:16:48 -0400 | From | Mark Hounschell <> | Subject | Re: Load kernel module automatically |
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Jan Hudec wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:47:16PM -0400, Michael Zhu wrote: > > Hi, I've read the man page of modules.conf. But I > > still couldn't figure out how to solve my problem. I > > mean how to change the modules.conf file. Can I edit > > this file directly? Can anyone give me an example? > > You say you read the page. ... Hey, wait a moment! > There are TWO files. /etc/modules.conf, that defines how to load modules > when they are requested (default parameters), which modules to load on > kernel request (autoloading) etc. And then there is another file - > /etc/modules, that is simply processed like > for each line do modprobe <the line> > during boot process. > > So depending on what kind of module you have. If it's a module for some > device, you can make the alias in modules.conf and kernel will ask for > it when it's needed. It also works for some special cases (like iptables > - they don't even need an alias). For other things, especially network > device drivers you need to load them from /etc/modules > That isn't the case. There is no /etc/modules file on any Linux box I've ever used. My network driver modules are loaded automatically by the kernel's internal module loader "kmod" because the are set up correctly in /etc/modules.conf.
"alias eth0 3c905"
ALL device driver modules can be set up to load automatacally by "kmod".
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