[Gllug] modprobe and SCSI devices.

[Formi]

 I have the following line in /etc/modules.conf

 alias eth0 tlan

 Extrapolating a bit you could try

 alias st0 "module name"

 That line was put in there by the install, even though devfsd is running.

 Also check man insmod.

 Formi
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Nick Warrington wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just bought a SCSI card and shoved it in my old pentium box to get a
> tape drive working. From the command line I can use modprobe with the module
> name as a parameter, the module seems to load and  the devices in /dev
> appear such as /dev/st0 etc.
>
> Now, after a reboot the entries in /dev are not there, so evidently the
> module is not being loaded on boot. As I understood it, the devfs would
> autodetect the device and add an entry for me on boot. Do I need to add a
> line in modules.conf and if so what should it look like?
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> Nick
>
> PS Out of interest I am running MDK9.0
>
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