How to auto load a driver at boot time ?

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Hi

I've written a driver module for my PCI card.
I can load it from a console using insmod OK.

However, I would like to load it automatically at boot time, but I don't
which script to edit in order to do this ?
I would like to load it for all users rather than just root, so I don't
believe its enough just to do it in the ($HOME)/.profile file.

I read somewhere about a /etc/rc.d/rc.modules  file, but that doesn't exist
on my SuSe 8.0 or RH 8.0 machines.

Another articule I found 
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1019/2/
talks about /etc/conf.module  and  /etc/modules neither of which I can find
on my machines.
There is no man page for 'update-modules' either.

I do have a /etc/modules.conf file, but I don't know how it helps me.

Any pointers appreciated.
thanks
dom
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