How to force a module to load at boot

[Aaron]

On -5925-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Rich B <deblists@osg.saic.com> spake thus,

> This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost.
> I don't know the correct way to force a kernel module to load at boot.
> I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the
> correct module automagically, but the new one doesn't. I have to eject
> the card and re-insert it before the xircom_cb loads. I've looked at
> /etc/modules.conf, but can't figure it out.
>
> How get the module to load at boot?
> Where can I learn how modules are normally loaded?
>
> Thanks,
> RichB

Place the name of the module on its own line in /etc/modules

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[Shaul Karl]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Rich B wrote:

>
> How get the module to load at boot?

I believe you should do 2 things:

1. Have the module mentioned in /etc/modules.
2. Write in /etc/modutils/module-name all the information regarding this
module, such as aliases, options and so on.

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[David Z Maze]

Rich B <deblists@osg.saic.com> writes:

> This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost. I don't know the correct
> way to force a kernel module to load at boot.

Add it to /etc/modules...

> I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the
> correct module automagically, but the new one doesn't. I have to eject
> the card and re-insert it before the xircom_cb loads.

....but I want to say that PCMCIA drivers are "special", and you can't
just load a module for a PCMCIA card and have it work. You might look
at the PCMCIA configuration files; one of them gives a mapping of
PCMCIA card IDs to module names. (Though if the right module gets
loaded the *second* time, something weirder is going on...)

> I've looked at /etc/modules.conf, but can't figure it out.

Documented in modules.conf(5), but on Debian, you want to create or
edit a file in /etc/modutils and then rerun update-modules(8).

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