[Sussex] Re: Fedora kernel modules / modprobe question

Tony Austin tony at gigaday.com
Mon Oct 10 09:04:41 UTC 2005


>> 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

There's no sign of /etc/modutils or update-modules on my Fedora 4 system.
I do have module-init-tools-3.1.3.rpm installed which contains the
modutils programs.


Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
http://www.gigaday.com
tony at gigaday.com






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