[Techtalk] Automatic loading of network card module after kernel upgrade

Nicole Zimmerman colby at wsu.edu
Mon Jul 22 09:06:56 EST 2002


In debian, this is done by editing the file /etc/modutils/local and then
running update-modules.

I was reading somewhere else that the practice

alias eth0 <module>
alias eth1 <module>

should be avoided because that will not guarantee that things happen that
way, only that if the kernel is looking for eth0 and can't find it, it
will load that module. So at boot time things may happen differently (eth0
will just be assigned to the first module that gets loaded). I may be
recalling that fuzzy. I forget where I read it now, maybe debian-users.
;o)

-nicole

At 23:58 on Jul 21, Conor Daly combined all the right letters to say:

> I don't know my debian but under RH, the file is /etc/modules.conf  My
> entry for the RTL8139 is:




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