On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Burger [mailto:mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wed, July 09, 2003 2:04 PM > > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: modprobe.conf question. > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > > > > > > Try the latest modutils-2.4.25-8.i386.rpm from rawhide: it works > > > > normally... > > > > Giovanni Iaboni > > > > > > Doesn't work for me :). When I add an alias to modules.conf > > file, modprobe > > > still can't find the module . > > > > My understanding is that modprobe finds and loads the > > modules, and then > > adds their info to modules.conf, not the other way around. > > > > That's not what I understand. For example if you have a line saying 'alias > somename somemodule' in modules.conf file and then issue a command 'modprobe > somename' it will try to load somemodule. > That's what it did until modutils-2.4.25-7. Now it does the same, but it > looks in modprobe.conf instead modules.conf, and they have slightly > different format. The thing is that you don't have to hav that module name in modules.conf in order to issue "modprobe module". You can issue that command, anyhow, and if the module exists, and the requisite hardware is installed in the system, it should work. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
