Status of /etc/modules.conf

Olu Akins b.akins at verizon.net
Wed May 5 02:57:06 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:06 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:38, Olu Akins wrote:
> >It was in FC2T2 but it cannot be found in FC2T3. I need to load some
> > modules and it is a pita to manually load them.
> >
> >One is usb-storage for the flash drive and the other is ndiswrapper
> > for wlan connection
>
> Its been deprecated in favor of /etc/modprobe.conf, and the syntax is
> changed somewhat.  There should be a mou=dules.cong2modprobe.conf
> utility there someplace to convert your old file if you still have a
> backup.
>
> You do run amanda don't you?
>
> >Thanks
> >Olu
>
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Okay, but how do I automatically install a module without having to do it 
manually? I was thinking about adding this to /etc/modprobe.conf
    ndiswrapper /sbin/modprobe
instead of doing 
   modprobe ndiswrapper 
at the shell prompt


Olu





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