[wplug] 2.6 modules

[Robert E. Coutch]

MY HEAD IS GOING TO EXPLODE !!!!!!!!!!

I've finally got the D-Link wireless card working on my kids' computer.

The card was SUPPOSED to use the Prism2 chipset but actually has a Realtek 
RTL-8180 in it.

I used the ndiswrapper package included with SuSE 9.1 to get things up and 
running.

After all was said and done, I had to force the system to load the ndiswrapper 
module by adding it to /etc/sysconfig/kernel.

In the old 2.4 kernel, I would have made changes in modules.conf to get 
everything up and running.

In 2.6, there are freakin' files for loading modules all over the place.
We have the above mentioned file as well as /etc/rd.c/boot.* 
files, /etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/modprobe.local as well as a blank 
modules.conf.

There was a file in /etc/sysconfig/hardware that referred to the wireless card 
and had a line to load ndiswrapper but did not seem to be doing this.

I was grepping my entire /etc to see where different kernel modules were being 
loaded from.

Is there some sort of logic behind this new way of loading modules?
Is this just a SuSE thing?

I'm venting a bit but was wondering if I put the loading of the ndiswrapper in 
the correct place or if something is broken and it should have loaded from 
the /etc/sysconfig/hardware/whateverthefilenamewas  file.

Your thoughts?


Thanks,

Bob