Re: How to install a kernel module?

["David A. Rogers" <darogers@xnet.com>]

Add the line
alias eth0 modulename

to /etc/modutils/aliases

then run update-modules.


There is a lot of good information on modules in the Debian University
document that I'm writing.

http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt

Cheers,
dar


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Miller, Jim wrote:

> I have a kernel module from intel to drive the Gigabit Intel Network
> adapter.  It is setup and insmod rmmod all work fine.  This is not a
> standard kernel module I got the src from Intel.  How do I set it up to
> automatically load into the kernel when eth0 is initialized?  Or where is
> the best place to drop it so it gets loaded a boot time?
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