Modules in RH7.x

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:34:59 PDT 2004


I think Kevin's email already addressed the formating, but basically, its
alias	device	module

so that it looks like this:
alias eth0 eepro100
alias scsi_hostadapter1 DAC960
alias usb-controller usb-ohci


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> So then, what is the format?  In the "default" file, they are just listed.
>  Can you do that in /etc/modules.conf as well or is there something
> special to do that?
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:03:07 -0400 (EDT)
> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > Redhat (has always) placed this stuff in /etc/modules.conf (although
> > before 7.x it was /etc/conf.modules which was admittedly, st00pid),
> > which is where
> > modutils expects it to be.  Caldera seems to have done things their own
> > way, which i've never understood.  On the 1 remaining Caldera box that i
> > run, this is one of the first things that i 'fix'.  IMHO, modules should
> > always be specified in modules.conf, not in some silly
> > /etc/modules/default.
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