[olug] modules.conf
drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com
drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com
Mon Aug 25 17:19:54 UTC 2003
I see. Maybe I misunderstood what the /etc/modules.conf file was. I never
had a need to load modules before. I guess I just assumed that the
/etc/modules.conf file was the file in which the modules were loaded from.
After what you just said, and reviewing startup scripts, I see the errors
of my ways. I now believe that rc.local is the correct place to load the
module.
Thanks for the help.
Daryl Rose
Scantron Service Group
Unix Support Specialist
drose at scantron.com
1-800-228-3628 x3061
"Eric Penne"
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Please respond to
Omaha Linux User
Group
On my debian system, /etc/modules.conf is for configuring modules.
/etc/modules is for loading the modules.
All I have to do to load a module at boot is to put it's name in the
/etc/modules file.
Not sure if your's is the same or not.
>
> If I make up an alias, i.e. alias easycon stallion, and put that in the
> modules.conf file, modprobe does not load it. I verify that by doing an
> lsmod and do not see the module loaded.
>
> If I do a modprobe -c|less, I do see the alias and module listed, but
> modprobe did not load the module. In other words, it did see my entry
> in the modules.conf, but didn't load the module into the kernel.
> i.e.
>
> # Generated by modprobe -c (2.4.14)
> path[boot]=/lib/modules/boot
> path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4.18-3
> path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/2.4
> path[kernel]=/lib/modules/kernel
> path[fs]=/lib/modules/fs
> path[net]=/lib/modules/net
> .
> .
> alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
> alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias usbdevfs usbcore
> alias easycon stallion <= Module showes up here.=>
> # Options
>
> Now, Cyclades is listed as:
> alias char-major-19 cyclades
> alias char-major-20 cyclades
>
> so I thought that I would follow this format. The major device number
> for the Stallion is: 24.
> I tried alias char-major-24 stallion.
>
> Modprobe still does not load the modules into the kernel.
>
> So far the only way that I've been able to get the module to install at
> bootup is by placing it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. i.e. insmod stallion.
> This works, but I don't thing that this is the proper way to do it.
>
> As far as Computone. Yes, Computone is dead. We have customers that
> still use it. We can get replacement parts, but its difficult. If
> possible, we switch our customers to Digi. Also, the customers that we
> have using Computone are on SCO. So far we only have customers using
> Digi and Stallion on Linux.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Daryl Rose
> Scantron Service Group
> Unix Support Specialist
> drose at scantron.com
> 1-800-228-3628 x3061
>
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> "Mike Peterson"
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> <mpeterson at mail.charlesfur
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group"
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> 08/22/2003 02:34 PM
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> Please respond to Omaha
>
> Linux
> User Group
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> If you do an lsmod and match that to what is in modules.conf the
> stallion.o might now exist.
> If not, use the same format as the other items in modules.conf using the
> info for how the alais is matched up in lsmod.
>
> Computone is out of business from I have found.
> I use Computone and Equinox on SCO but am going to use on Equinox on
> Linux.
>
> Do you use Computone on Linux or just UNIX?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com>
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] modules.conf
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>>
>> The controller card is an interal card, with an external module. The
>> controller is a Stallion EasyConnection 8/64 PCI.
>>
>> Stallion only has drivers for <= 2.2 kernel. They say to use the
>> kernel built in modules, stallion.o, for 2.4 kernels.
>>
>> If I do a insmod stallion, they load just fine. But I want to be able
>> to have the module load on bootup, i.e. modules.conf. I've never put
>> a
> module
>> in modules.conf by hand before. If I've ever installed something that
>> required a module to be loaded, an install program put it in the
>> modules.conf, and I've never thought twice about it.
>>
>> As far as using Equinox, this is a customer requirenment. Our
>> customers use Digi, Equinox, Stallion, and Computone.
>>
>> Daryl Rose
>> Scantron Service Group
>> Unix Support Specialist
>> drose at scantron.com
>> 1-800-228-3628 x3061
>>
>>
>>
>> "Mike Peterson"
>> <mpeterson at mail.charlesfur To:
>> "Omaha
> Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
>> niture.com> cc:
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>> 08/22/2003 12:23 PM
>> Please respond to Omaha
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>> Is it a internal board or an externally connected network device?
>>
>> Did it not come with or have available for download Linux install
> software?
>>
>> Did the software not already install the required module?
>>
>> Does the customer require stallion?
>>
>> Is this being moved from a UNIX system?
>>
>> I use Equinox for Linux, Windows, and UNIX.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com>
>> To: <olug at olug.org>
>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:41 AM
>> Subject: [olug] modules.conf
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>>
>> > I want to add a multiport serial board (stallion) to the
>> modules.conf
>> file.
>> > Do I make up an alias name for it? Or is there predefined aliases
>> that
> I
>> > have to use?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Daryl Rose
>> > Scantron Service Group
>> > Unix Support Specialist
>> > daryl_rose at scantron.com
>> > 1-800-228-3628 x3061
>> >
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