Slamr and slmodemd

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Thu Feb 24 11:47:46 UTC 2005


On Thursday 24 February 2005 09:34, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Please help me out here.
> > I have  /sbin/modprobe slamr in rc.local
> > Then I have /etc/init.d/slmodemd set to runlevels 345 to start.
> >
> > The problem is the slamr module loads after the slmodemd scripts runs
> > I have tried placing install slamr /bin/true in /etc/modprobe.conf
> > and /etc/modprobe.conf.dists and  /etc/modprobe.conf.local but the slamr
> > module doesn't load at all
> >
> > I also tried creating a modules.conf with 0755 permissions and
> > adding /sbin/modprobe slamr to it but then it also doesn't load at at
> > all. I know it is obselete but I thought is was worth a try.
> >
> >
> > Where else can I put it so that it loads before the slmodemd script is
> > started
>
> One option might to be to put it in your initrd, using mkinitrd with the
> "--with=slamr" option.
>
> Alternatively, could create an initscript in /etc/rc.d/init.d with a
> "start" number lower than the one for /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/slmodemd so that
> it gets run before that one.
>
> Paul.
With the mkinitrd option ould I have to reconfigure grub?


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