Re: What's the different between kmod/kerneld?
Thx for answering my previous questions but I am still confused about
auto loading of modules at boot time.
In fact I had my kernel 2.4.18(Deb 3.0) recompiled to use modules for
activating my network card. However, after reboot the network card
seems to be not working referring to those error messages. At the end I
find out that the module of my network card has to be loaded manually by
myself(coz I couldn't see it by typing "lsmod"). However, there are
modules already loaded by the system which is not listed on the file
"/etc/modules".
How do I know which modules or type of modules will be loaded at boot
time? Is it the general practice to activate my network's module by
including the modules name of my network card in the file
"/etc/modules"?
Thank you
Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: What's the different between kmod/kerneld?
> "Jones" <ddthief@optushome.com.au> writes:
>
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> #include <canonical-email-formatting-rant>
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> > I am a newbie in Linux and I have started using it 3 months ago. I
> > know that "modules.conf" is used to record the modules for loading
> > during system start, which is used by kerneld. righ!?
>
> Well, no, not really:
>
> -- /etc/modules contains a listing of module names that are loaded
> (with 'modprobe') at boot time;
>
> -- /etc/modules.conf contains configuration for modprobe, which
> includes autoloading information; but on Debian,
>
> -- /etc/modutils/* are fragments of modules.conf (you can create your
> own if you want), and 'update-modules' will rebuild modules.conf
> from this.
>
> > But what about kmod??? Some documents said it is written to replace
> > kerneld but I just don't know how to use it.
>
> kmod is a newer version of kerneld, yes; I think kerneld last existed
> in the 2.0.x kernel series. They both work pretty much the same way,
> though: you open, say, /dev/audio, which is a character-special device
> with major number 14, minor number 4. If there isn't already a driver
> loaded, the kernel runs 'modprobe /dev/audio and 'modprobe
> char-major-14'; if both of these fail, you get an error ("device not
> found" or some such). Otherwise, if /etc/modules.conf lists an alias
> for one or the other of these, the relevant module is loaded and used
> to handle the request.
>
> --
> David Maze dmaze@debian.org
http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
> "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
> -- Abra Mitchell
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