Someone suggested I try modconf. After running that and adding all the firewire related modules, it worked great after bootup. It did add the same entries I thought I did to /etc/modules, but I could not tell what else was changed, if anything ...
Thanks much. cheers vinai On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Alexander Stagun wrote: > vinai wrote: > > > What is the "cleanest" way to add kernel modules so they are loaded > > at boot time ? > > /etc/modules > > > I recently got a firewire disk and redid my kernel with all of the > > .... > > /etc/modutils. But neither try worked at boot up ... > > Putting that modules in /etc/modules should load them during boot up. > Perhaps those modules need some options or a specific load order?