On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:09:47PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> \begin{Steven downing}
> > After doing a nice clean install of potato last night, I now have to
> > come to grips with the 'Debian way of doing things' - like setting
> > up a sound card and a nic, etc. So is there some tool like the one
> > in the install that let you choose what modules load with the
> > kernel.
>
> its called modconf(8)
>
> all modconf does is add modules to /etc/modules and possible add
> module options in /etc/modules.conf (by adding a file to
> /etc/modutils/)
>
> modules listed in /etc/modules are explicitly loaded at boot time, so
> you only need to list the "dubious" modules, like sound card and
> network card. filesystems, etc will autoload fine by themselves.
> (alternatively you can add lines to /etc/modules.conf like:
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> and they will autoload too)
That would not be the debian way gus :) Next time update-modules
gets run by some package you'll lose the entry. I think your just
supposed to create a new file in /etc/modutils eg create a file called
localaliases with
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
alias sound-slot-0 sb
assuming you have an sb card.
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John
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