[wplug] 2.6 modules

[Richard Farina]

Don't know if this helps you at all, but my kernal modules (the ones that 
don't hotplug) get loaded from a file called /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
I'm not sure, might only be a gentoo thing, but that's just my $0.02

-Rick Farian

At 08:36 PM 11/11/2004, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
>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
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