Re: modprobe.conf is ignored

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Joachim Selke wrote:
> I found out why the modprobe.conf line does not work as expected. It
> is not ignored but cannot be executed the way it should be. The
> problem is that the ipw3945 module is loaded by udev at a stage when
> the filesystem is still mounted read-only. Hence, the ipe3945d
> daemon is not able to create its pid file (and also my "touch /test"
> test failes). I found this explanation here:
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/10/msg00483.html>

Cool, I'd noticed the same issue but never dug enough to find out why
it failed to locad properly.

> So maybe I have to write my own service or I modify the modprobe
> entry such that a script is started in the background that waits for
> the filesystem to be mounted read-write and then starts the daemon.

You could use this simple init script as a basis for an ipw3945d
service:

http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init

Copy this to /etc/init.d/ipw3945d and use chkconfig add to set it up.

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