Modules in RH7.x

[Net Llama!]

ISA anything is a completely different animal, as you normally need to use
isapnp to get it confdigured.  I've honestly never used ISA hardware under
Linux, so i'll leave it to someone else to comment on its parculiarities.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> 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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