On Friday 18 November 2005 00:04, Mark Knecht was like: > Please note that there is no requirement in Gentoo to use > update-modules. (or modules-update) Users are free to write > modprobe.conf by hand like they do on other distros. This is likely > one of those things that is sort of in the cracks. It's just as confusing in Debian. update-modules is obsolete (that's what the man-page says, it writes out to modprobe.conf), but due to the requirements of backwards compatibility, the old structure still exists. The whole is neither intuitive nor well documented. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
