Modules in RH7.x

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

How about this, then?  In a couple of distributions, when I add a certain 
ISA NIC, I need to add both the line "modprobe smc-ultra" to 
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules and add "alias eth0 smc-ultra" to 
/etc/modules.conf.  With Caldera (or Lycoris, that borrows heavily from 
Caldera) I have been able to do that or simply add the module name to 
/etc/modules/default.  For something like this that the OS is unlikely to 
automatically find, do I not have to both tell it to load the module and 
then tell it how to use it in Redhat?

At 11:28 AM 7/16/02 -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
>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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