Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 May 1999 11:07:32 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: automatic loading of modules? |
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> Iam told that ethernet drivers and such are loaded on demand and > once we access the device.
Only if configure that way
> i have a eepro100 on my system, but i dont see a device file in > /dev? do network device have device representations? > > what does a driver writer has to do to so some other driver that we write > gets automatically loaded?
nothing... its done in userspace. edit /etc/conf.modules (or modules.conf on some systems) and put a line is like this:
alias eth0 eepro100 (or whatever its called)
-cw
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