/etc/modules.conf versus /etc/modprobe.conf
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Tue Jul 13 02:39:17 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 21:34, Ben Vitale wrote:
> /etc/modules.conf
> /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> Are these files related/the same/different versions for different
> kernels?? A lot of "fixes" (e.g. turning off ipv6, correcting sound card
> problems) require making changes to one of these.. and now I have a mess
> of similarities and differences between the two files.
>
> Can someone clarify please, thanks.
>
> Ben
/etc/modules.conf: used with 2.4 series kernels.
/etc/modprobe.conf: used with 2.6 series kernels.
You should only have one of them on your system.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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