[vox-tech] Installing Adaptec SCSI Card

[Ken Bloom]

> ---ORIGINAL MESSAGE--- 
> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:43:22 -0700
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Installing Adaptec SCSI Card
> From: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>
> Reply-To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> 
> hi rod,
> 
> nope -- he means /etc/modules.   i think it's a debianism.  basically,
> any modules listed in this textfile get loaded at boot time.
> 
> pete
> 
> begin Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com> 
> > Dunno about /etc/modules -- do you mean modules.conf?
> > 
> > That is one beastie I've never understood very well, mainly 
> > because I don't know what all the alias names are that might 
> > be used.  But in general, it modifies the behavior of
> > modprobe, for example specifying optional parameter values,
> > or prerequisite modules.
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure there's a way to specify your SCSI driver in
> > there, but usually I just put a modprobe command in the
> > startup scripts.  I'd love to hear more about what the Best 
> > Way is.  :-)
> > 

I use /etc/modules just fine on sarge with kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4
/etc/modules is not a debianism, I used use it on Mandrake 8.2 also.

from modules(5):

The /etc/modules file contains the names of kernel modules that are to
be loaded at boot time, one per line. Arguments can be given in the same
line as the module name. Comments begin with a `#', and everything on
the line after them are ignored.