Inserting modules

[william]

Whenever I boot the system I have to add manually in terminal the following comands to have some external devices working:

modprobe pcmcia_core

modprobe sd yenta_socket

modprobe audio

modprobe exaudio

 

In order to make the system load these modules during booting time I inserted in /etc/modules all these lines, but unforntunately with no success.

 

Any help will be very much appreciated.

[phunni]

try /etc/modules.conf - something in my memory tells me that is where they should go - of course it could be the gremlins in my head...

[tyme]

don't bother with the modprobe section, just put the modules in there.

[phunni]

curse those pesky gremlins...

[tyme]

curse those pesky gremlins...

modules.conf is the right file ;-) i was just pointing out that you don't need to place the modprobe part.

 

in fact, i think there's more too it....

[william]

Deserving my rank here in this forum, what should be considered during any sort of help, I've just inserted the modules with "modprobe" in /etc/modules.conf and the system got damaged. During booting time I receive a bunch of errors, my windows partition, my ethernet card, my internal soundcard, my hub with a bunch of devices attached to the hub (external sound, zip, mouse, etc) is not being recognized.

 

What to do??

 

Reinstall the system???

[william]

after deleting the entries in modules.conf., everything working ok.

But still inserting modulus at each reboot..

[pmpatrick]

I'm not sure of the syntax myself, but here's my modules.conf file if it's any help:

 

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi

probeall usb-interface usb-uhci

alias eth0 8139too

alias sound-slot-0 es1371

alias /dev/nvidia*   nvidia

[bvc]

put

modprobe audio

and the others in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules or rc.local and see if they load.

[hea]

Take a look at this:

 

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...hlight=advansys

[william]

hea: unfortunately i didn't worked.

 

put

modprobe audio

and the others in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules or rc.local and see if they load.

 

bvc: I've opened the files you mentioned, but how to edit this files, I mean:

rc.modules is quite complicated to understand, could explain (a "cake recipe") me where and which comand line I have to nsert in these files, via vi or an editor?

 

thanks

[bvc]

Use any editor that is not using word wrap. Most do not by default....you have to turn it on. If you know how to use vi/vim/gvim, sure! In kde I always used kate or vim. Here's the end of my /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example

 

elif [ $SECURE_LEVEL -ge 4 ]; then

   rm -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net

fi



touch /var/lock/subsys/local



# I2C adapter drivers

modprobe i2c-viapro

modprobe i2c-isa

# I2C chip drivers

modprobe adm1021

modprobe eeprom

modprobe w83781d



echo 2048 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq

echo 8190 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

You probably already have;

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

so, basically put the mods at the end. Same goes for rc.modules.

[william]

thanks bvc I got it working.

[bvc]