[Sussex] Fedora kernel modules / modprobe question

[Colin Tuckley]

Tony Austin wrote:
> I am new to Fedora and 2.6 kernel and I can't figure out how to control
> which modules load at boot time.  I've read the man pages for modprobe and
> modprobe.conf but I still don't get it.
> 
> I want to stop some modules loading at boot, but the same ones always seem
> to be there when I run lsmod.  I have tried renaming both the files
> /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules.conf.dist but all the modules seem to
> load anyway.
> 
> Where do I need to look for the list of modules to load at boot?

2.6 kernels handle modules differently. You need to take a look at the files
in /etc/modutils and read the manpage for update-modules.

regards,

Colin

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