Re: A modules question

2001-02-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What does update-modules do with /etc/modules? Nothing. You are writing /etc/modules when you install modules during installation, and from then on you're responsible for it yourself. update-modules builds /etc/modules.conf from all the bits and pieces i

Re: A modules question

2001-02-27 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: >Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> >> again, just for my own curiosity, do other distributions also autoload >> modules on boot using /etc/modules? Yes. > I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i What does update-modules do with /et

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:58:26PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm tryng to build a machien this weekend to see if I can use testing. I need > largefile support, and that appaears to be the best way to get, but I also > need a > machine thats reliable enough for production work. > > In any case, I

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach mike polniak (on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:06:30PM -0500): > I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i > just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for > modutils in /etc/init.d. Its one of the first scripts run from sysinit. > It runs d

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > again, just for my own curiosity, do other distributions also autoload > modules on boot using /etc/modules? I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for modutils in /etc/i

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi mike, i read your email and found it very useful. a few questions remain: > If you run> lsmod it will show you all loaded modules(e.g. eepro) > and > modprobe -l will show all your available modules. > When the kernel needs a feature that is not resident in the kernel, it > sends

Re: A modules question

2001-02-25 Thread mike polniak
> > In any case, I installed "stable" on this machine and all went well. It has an > Intel Etherxpress Pro 100 NIC in it, which requires the eepro module to be > loaded. > > I do this during install, and it is installed "permanently" such that when I > reboot > the machine it's reloaded. > > B