Modules in RH7.x

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Actually, getting it to work isn't the problem.  In Caldera, Slackware, 
Lycoris, (and I seem to recal Corel so, presumably Debian) editing 
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules is how to get a module loaded at boot if hardware 
detection doesn't do it or isn't present.  In Redhat and Mandrake /etc/rc.d 
is much more complex.  Last time I changed a network card in a Mandrake 
system, I broke down and used Linuxconf.

At 12:14 PM 7/16/02 -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
>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?



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