On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:45:10AM -0800, hillbilly wrote: > Just a question to Marc Perrudin... > In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the > 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ > directory as indicated in your response and place the 'local' file in > that one instead?
I'll throw my 2 cents in to this thread, because I learned it the hard way... Before 2.5.something kernel we used modutils. With modutils I edited a file in the /etc/modutils/ directory and ran update-modules, which resulted everything concatenated into the /etc/modules.conf file. Since 2.5.something we use the module-init-tools instead of the modutils. With the module-init-tools I edit a file in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory and that's it. There is an alternative to editing a file in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. The alternative is to put all the module stuff into the /etc/modprobe.conf _file_. If the /etc/modprobe.conf file exists, then the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory is not read at all. I'm not sure what would happen if you have a directory called /etc/modprobe.conf/, since it is not mentioned in the man page. See man modprobe.conf for more details... HTH, Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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