Re: Confused about modules

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Robert Parker wrote:

> That's dealt with the actual problem, but I notice that lsmod gives me 27 
> lines of modules, there are just 2 modules in my /etc/modules. Where/when/how 
> do the other 25 modules get installed? Only 1 of the first 5 appears in 
> /etc/modules.conf.
>
>  
Tools like hotplug and discover automatically load modules as necessary. 
It's just that sometimes they miss a needed module, and that's why you 
need to add them to /etc/modules to get them loaded.

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Kent