On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Michael Zhu wrote: > Hi, I couldn't find the /etc/modules file in my Linux > machine. There is only a modules.conf file under /etc > directory. My Linux is RedHat 7.2 with kernel version > 2.4.7-10. What is wrong with this? > > Michael Just create the file, and then put in the text. /etc/modules.conf is for module options and aliases. example: My sound card is a sb16, with irq=7 io=0x220, dma1=0, dma2=5 in /etc/modules.conf (this is from memory, might not be exact) alias eth0 3c59x alias sound sb options sb irq=7, io=0x220, dma=0, dma16=5 Now, I can do "modprobe sound"[0] and it will load my sb module with those paramaters. I could also do "modprobe sb" and it will load my sb module with those parameters. I can also do "modprobe eth0" and it will load my 3c59x module. You may also put the aliased names in /etc/modules. example: eth0 sound vfat [0] modprobe is the preferred way to load modules, instead of insmod. modprobe will load any dependencies your module needs, and will unload all of them if one fails to load. -ES -- Eric Sandall | (P)e-mail: sandalle@mail.wsu.edu Debian Linux Beowulf Cluster | (P)web: http://hellhound.homeip.net/ ICQ: 667348 | User 196285: http://counter.li.org/ SysAdmin, Shock Physics, WSU | (W)web: http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
