On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:39:25AM -0800, Sean Rhea wrote: > I have a new Sony Vaio Z505LS, which I have gotten Debian installed on. > Everything works, except one thing: when I boot, the system loads the sound > card modules before the Ethernet card modules, and the sound card "steals" > the Ethernet's IRQ. This does not happen if I load the Ethernet card > first. I can easily frankenstein into the init scripts the functionality > that the Ethernet card gets loaded first, but I would rather know the > "Debian way" of doing this correctly. I'm guessing it has something to do > with the /etc/modules.conf setup?
You can define modules, which should be loaded at boot time in /etc/modules On my system the modules named there are loaded in the specified order. > Btw, if anyone is interested in how I got Debian installed on this laptop, > I'd be happy to write it up. The USB floppy drive makes for an interesting > install, given that Debian likes a Rescue and a Root floppy, and the kernel > on the Rescue floppy doesn't speak USB... Then write a report for http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Phil
