Re: auto modules

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:41:10PM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:31:22PM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> > On a redhat (7.2, specifically) system, how do I tell the system to
> > load a module for the NIC on bootup?  I can put the modprobe line in
> > an initscript that loads early on, or modify the network script, but
> > is there a "proper" place to put that info?
> 
> Is there any particular reason that the module shouldn't just be
> loaded when the interface is ifconfig'd up?  That's how it usually
> works...
> 
> If you really need it early, you probably should add it to the initrd.
> (Run mkinitrd with the appropriate --with=module option.)

That'd be fine too, but it's not automagically doing that either.  Is that
some kind of "alias eth0 3c509" line or what?  This is a pretty old system,
and the automatic hardware detection isn't finding the NIC.

--Danny, who should really just build a kernel with support built in anyway

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