Re: loading modules (or not!)

[Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <ojs@klaki.net>]

Þann 2006-03-02, 11:53:50 (+0100) skrifaði Renato Serodio:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm puzzled by the module system for kernel 2.6. Everything's working
> fine, that's a point, but still..
> 
> I used make-kpkg to create my kernel and modules, in this case ipw2100
> and ieee_sth. After installing them, I notice that they get
> automatically loaded at boot. Well, modules.dep was update.
> 
> But what if one wants to control which modules are loaded at boot? I
> read the man pages but didn't find anything conclusive. Only the old
> modutils pages had something about it.
> 
> I'm sure there's a way to manually define the modules being loaded. I
> suppose it would involve some file in modprobe sintax, but which?

Hi

Now, I havent tried this program out but it lookst by its description
that it does what you want to do, the package is called modconf, just
apt-get install modconf and try it out.

Oli