Re: Installing a module

[Nigel Henry <cave dnb2m97pp aliceadsl fr>]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 02:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > To autoload the tuner module at bootup, and as Fedora does not have
> > an /etc/modules file (as debian has), try putting the line below
> > in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
> What kernel is Debian running? /etc/modules was replaced by
> /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* in newer the 2.6.x kernels.
>
> Mikkel

Hi Mikkel.

It's a different file I was referring to on Debian. It's simply named modules, 
not modules.conf as was on FC1 with the 2.4 kernel. You can simply add the 
names of modules you want to be loaded at bootup in /etc/modules on Debian, 
as below.

8139too
tuner

Nigel.