Re: Loading modules during startup

[Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net>]

On Sunday 24 February 2008 09:13, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I have put atl2 in /etc/modules and but after booting I see this in
> messages. localhost:~# cat /var/log/messages |grep atl2
> Feb 21 12:16:11 localhost kernel: atl2: disagrees about version of
> symbol struct_module
> Feb 24 18:48:22 localhost kernel: atl2: disagrees about version of
> symbol struct_module
> Feb 24 18:52:37 localhost kernel: atl2: disagrees about version of
> symbol struct_module
>
> But when I load manually as
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18/kernel/drivers/net/atl2/atl2.ko
> I get everythink OK and I could use /etc/init.d/networking restart to
> start internet connection.
> I also checked for anyother modules in /lib/modules using find. result is
> localhost:/lib/modules# find . -name atl2.*
> ./2.6.18/kernel/drivers/net/atl2/atl2.ko
> Any reason why it happens.
> What should I do to boot module during boot?

  Is /lib/modules/2.6.18/... the correct path?  The reason I ask
is that a truly "stock" Debian "etch" should be using the path
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-<arch>/, and if you built the atl2 module
against the kernel sources, that's probably where it put it.

  On my system which had a similar problem, I didn't have to put
it in /etc/modules, it was correctly detected and loaded at 
boot-time.  Have you tried that?

  As a hack-ish workround, if nothing else works, you could 
always stick a "modprobe atl2" in /etc/init.d/networking.  
This is slightly dangerous, it might get removed by subsequent
package updates, but it would work.

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Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net