On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:18:44PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > what is the preferred method of loading modules? i guess /etc/modules > will be the answer because of tool like modconf, but i don't generally > use debian kernels or modconf, so i am interested on what you have to > say.
There is no preferred method afaik. If you do not have kmod, then you will need /etc/modules, because /etc/modules.conf is simply not used. Since I use kmod, I create a new file, named /etc/modutils/local, and put my machine's settings in there. Then run update-modules to regenerate /etc/modules.conf. Another way would be to edit /etc/modutils/arch/i386, but that way, an upgrade may want to change that file and I have to merge it manually with my changes all the time. Don't put the local file in the arch/ subdirectory, because it will not be found there by update-modules, as I found out after many fruitless attempts. Cheers, Joost
