[NBLUG/talk] Scanner Setup-loading module at startup.

[Cal Herrmann]

I looked, my curiosity stimulated, in my Mandrake 9.1, for /etc/modules; it 
had only one line beyond the introductory comments:
	scsi_hostadapter
But booting does an extensive search for modules, is there some other list? Is 
it the other /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules.devfs files?
Just wondering.
Cal
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:14 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 21:39, Ross Thomas wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure you'll find a file called /etc/modules
> > (that's right, no extension).  It contains a list of
> > modules, one per line, that are to be loaded at boot.
> > Now that you have the alias set as above stick
> > scsi_hostadapter in there and reboot to see if it
> > works.
>
> I think I tried it on RedHat 9, and the file did not exist (nor did any
> of the init scripts pay any attention to it when I created it).  It
> seems to be restricted to Debian and possibly a few other distros.
>
> If I remember correctly, I had to hack the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file to
> load the modules listed in /etc/modules.  Something like:
>
> for mod in `cat /etc/modules`
> do
> 	modprobe $mod
> done
>
> However, I switched the box to Debian/testing a few weeks later, so in
> the end it didn't really matter.