[Nelug] modprobe versus modules.conf

[Dougie Nisbet]

Andrew Hatch wrote:

>I naively thought I could then just add the line
>
>	alias eth0 8139too
>
>to /etc/modules.conf and the device should start automagically.
>Unfortunately it doesn't.  Does anybody have a gem of wisdom they could
>share with me on this?
>  
>
Probably not much help but I tend whenever possible to avoid modules. 
For something as fundamental as networking I can't think of a situation 
where I'd not need it. It might be worthwhile compiling it directly into 
the kernel?

dougie