Re: Modules

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> 
> |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules.
> 
> |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I
> |manually
> |give:
> |   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
> |   insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11
> |I get the message that the ne modules has been |successfully loaded.
> 
> |Now I want to ne.o module to be loaded at boot. |How/what/where?
> I know that if you list the modules to be loaded in the file
> /etc/modules (with arguments) they will be loaded at boot time.  (You
> dont have to list 8290.o, loading the ne.o module will load the
> 8290.o because it depends on the former, assuming you run depmod -a
> first, which the kernel init scripts do).  What I would like to know,
> is how to create the /etc/module file after building a new kernel, I
> think it has to be done by hand (yuck!).

I believe modconf is the command you're looking for.

Noel