Modules in RH7.x

[Matthew Carpenter]

On all the COL's I've run, it was simple.  Add the module name to
/etc/modules/default and in /etc/modules.conf make a line that looks like
so:

options sb io=0s220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=0 mpu_io=0x330

or something to fit the specs of your module/card.  This is my
SoundBlaster setting for my laptop.

As for the Alias command, how would I load a module that didn't directly
apply to a piece of Hardware, like VPN or IP_TABLES or somesuch?  Or are
those supposed to go in rc scripts?

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:59:29 -0500
"Stuart Biggerstaff" <biggers at lindahall.org> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> Stuart Biggerstaff
> 
> Linda Hall Library of Science Engineering & Technology
> 5109 Cherry St.
> Kansas City, MO 64110
> 
> Phone:  (816) 926-8748
>          (800) 662-1545 x748
> FAX:    (816) 926-8785
> URL:    www.lindahall.org
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-users mailing list -
> http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
> Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the
> above URL.