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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:27:51PM -0500, Adam Turk wrote:
> 
> > You need to enable KMOD. Otherwise you must manually preload
> > the relevant modules.
> 
> I thought that was what udev was for?  Anyway I recompiled with KMOD enabled and I have partial success.  I nolonger get any errors when I plug in my wireless card.  

No udev provides auto-loading for device drivers of e.g., PCI
devices.  KMOD loads things like network protocols or crypto
algorithms that are not device-backed.

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