[Nottingham] Re joystick, thanks.

[Philip Scott]

I don't think there is a difference. The problem you're descrbing might be 
because you're using insmod and not modprobe - insmod installs *only* the 
module you specify, but the module may rely on others to work correctly. 
modprobe looks at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep (which I believe is 
generated by 'depmod') to figure out any dependancies that must be loaded 
before the specified module, and installs them first. 

Perhaps the problem is that if you install the module before the boot stage, 
your modules.dep is not upto date - most boot systems run 'depmod' at some 
stage. If so, making sure depmod is run before you install the module(with 
modprobe) should fix the problem.

Kind Regards,
 Philip

On Monday 13 January 2003 12:46 pm, Lee wrote:
> Talking of Modprobe, insmod n all, can somebody tell me what the
> difference between loading a modules after the boot stage, and loading a
> module before. I have this wireless network driver, which somehow, with
> a lot of fiddling I got working, but if I load the same driver at the
> multiuser run level with insmod, I can't get it to work, it just appears
> with lsmod, as (unused)???? :-(....