[ale] Module handling at boot

Ken Nagorski kenn at refriedgeek.com
Thu Jan 10 12:08:25 EST 2002


> If you have a module that needs to get loaded at boot time but you 
> forgot to include it when you ran menuconfig prior to compiling a 
> kernel, how do you fix it where it'll load at boot time?  In this case,
>  it's the module for the NIC (RTL8139) and I assume (I haven't tried
> it)  that if I booted it up and typed "insmod <module_name>" and then
> "ifup  eth1" then my NIC would pop to life.  So I'm trying to make this
> result  happen at boot time instead.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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