Jan Hudec wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:34:09PM +0200, Edward Gerhold wrote: > >> Christine Ames wrote: >> >> >>> --- Edward Gerhold <edwin.hold@t-online.de> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Mcen navaraj wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> hello, >>>>> please tell me how to start a module at boot time. >>>> >>>> Isn't /etc/modules.cnf doing this for us ? >>> >> i really meant /etc/modules.conf :) > > > No, you really ment /etc/modules ;-). No. I ment /etc/modules.conf - and the manpage belonging to it. :) > /etc/modules.conf is a config file for modprobe. But it does not run > modprobe. To actually load the module at boot time, you have to call > modprobe from some init script. Most distros do this for all modules > mentioned in some file, possibly called /etc/modules (that's for Debian, > so it may be called different somewhere else). Aah. I thrust you. I'm having a SuSE Distribution here. I looked. It has no file like /etc/modules. So i searched for the modprobe. I found 'modprobe' here started at boot-time in /etc/rc.d/boot . A Question: if we don't use a script together with modprobe and it's /etc/modules.conf at boot time - how can we start modules at boot-time ? Do you know any other possibilities ? (writing an own "bootscript" and using insmod for each module instead of modprobe means the same to me :)) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> Edward -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
