Re: Load kernel module automatically

[Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Michael Zhu wrote:
> Hi, I've read the man page of modules.conf. But I
> still couldn't figure out how to solve my problem. I
> mean how to change the modules.conf file. Can I edit
> this file directly? Can anyone give me an example?
> 
> Thanks.

/etc/modules.conf is quite useful if you work with /dev files w/0 devfs, 
protocol families etc.

Example: you have your sound driver compiled as a module. In /dev you have 
a couple of sound character devs with major number 14. Now you write an 
alias for it into your /etc/modules.conf:

alias	char-major-14	soundcore

Example: you have your ipv6 over ipv4 compiled as a module. Your protocol 
family 41 requires ipv6 to be loaded. Therefore say:

alias	net-pf-41	ipv6

Regards,
Thunder
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