In response to question 1, it's not really all the important for
most things. I use /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Just need it in some startup
script.
As for question 3, (as I understand it) it's only necessary if
kerneld has not had a request (am I using the right terminology here?) for
the module (such as a 3c59x module being loaded when the ifconfig command
is run on an interface) or you haven't configured any options the module
might require. (This is the case in my setup, because I was too lazy to do
so :)) After reading your last response, I looked up how to set up
conf.modules. Therein is my answer to question 2.
Here's my conf.modules file:
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alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
options cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
------------------------------------------
The net-pf-x lines are unrelated to this case. The important line
is obviously the cs4232 options line. This line is what kerneld will look
at when it loads the cs4232 module, equivalent to my earlier insmod
command. This way, however, is much shorter. After setting your options
line in /etc/conf.modules, all you need to do is add a line in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local (or the like) like this: "/sbin/modprobe -a cs4232".
Viola. :) HTH
Matt
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Engineering and Natural Sciences
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On 18 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
>
> I've got some modules-related questions:
>
> 1) If I need to manually insert some modules following boot where is the
> appropriate place to place the insmod commands?
>
> 2) What is the conf.modules used for? Is it required?
>
> 3) Why is it ever necessary to execute insmod commands? Isn't kmod (in 2.1.x
> kernels) or kerneld (in 2.0.x kernels) supposed to load modules as needed?
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