[ale] Module handling at boot

[Ken Nagorski]

Hmm, that was strange. I swear I typed a message...

Anyway. Yes redhat is different from slackware and the fact that you are
using the ifup command says that it is redhat or some form of. 

At anyrate. Do this add this line to your /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 <module>

That should do it for you.
Thanks
Ken

> Ken Nagorski wrote:
>> 
>> > 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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>> But I don't want to go among mad people,
>> Alice remarked.
>> Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat:
>> we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
>> How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
>> You must be, said the Cat,
>> or you wouldn't have come here.
> 
> While quoting Lewis Carrol at the machine would probably be
> worth a try under Windows, we have more effective measures
> available with Linux :-)
> 
> Depending on your distribution, there should be some
> rc.* files somewhere under /etc. On Slackware, I'd
> edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, and add the appropriate
> "modprobe" command for the network card to the top of
> the file. I'm not sure how this works on Red Hat and
> derivatives; I know their boot-script scheme is quite
> different from Slack's though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
> "I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
>  which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
>  problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
>  --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"


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But I don't want to go among mad people,
Alice remarked.
Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat:
we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
You must be, said the Cat,
or you wouldn't have come here.


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