Get FC2 to load 1394 drivers automatically

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 00:31:28 UTC 2004


On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:08:01 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:

> >    I haven't figured out how to make FC2 load these drivers everytime
> > I boot. 

> Try adding this line (all as one line, it's wrapped for readability):
> 
>         install sbp2 /sbin/modprobe ohci1394 && /sbin/modprobe
>         --ignore-install sbp2.
> 
> Then a "modprobe sbp2" or "modprobe firewire1" should do it.  The first
> thing it'll do is load ohci1394.  That should load ieee1394 since
> ohci1394 depends on it.  Finally, sbp2 should load and you should be
> happy.
> 
> Ah, the power of the "install" modprobe.conf option and the
> "--ignore-install" option of modprobe.

Rick,
   THanks for the reply. This does indeed get everything loaded when I
modprobe sbp2. However it doesn't modprobe sbp2 automatically at boot
time. How can I make that happen?

Thanks,
Mark




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