Sorry for the elementary nature of the question but I am not happy with my current understanding of module configuration under Debian. I'm not very good at understanding Linux documentation yet.
/usr/doc/modules == contains a group of stubs that tell me they are there for backwards compatibility. /usr/doc/modutils == contains a file that says "These utilities are intended primarily for use with kernels 2.1.18 and above." Anyway what I really want to know is the purpose of the files /etc/init.d/modules (which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/modutils) /etc/modules /etc/conf.modules Here's what I think I understand so far. /etc/init.d/modutils ==================== says it "loads the appropriate modules in 'boot'". I suppose this means /etc/init.d/boot which seems to load modules in /etc/init.d/modutils. Which one is doing what? I think this couple of files are for the loading of modules needed before kerneld? Like modules to mount file-systems in fstab ? /etc/modules ============ I like this one. Nice and uncomplicated (spot the non-shell programmer) Contains the comment # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. (I thought that was what the previously mentioned file did) I have "auto" commented out in this file so this means: kerneld will load these modules as I need them? If I had "auto" uncommented it would mean: kerneld would load them all at boot time (but not in time for things like file-systems in fstab) ? /etc/conf.modules ================= Contains only aliases for modules and options to load them? I added an option line in this file specifying my net card settings to prevent auto-probing at boot. This email was brought to you today by the letter 'm' -- John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lynx.net.au/~jspence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .