On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:09:07 +0000 Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After my laptop is booted, I can get driver modules: > > orinoco_cs > orinoco > hermes > > loaded just by typing `modprobe orinoco_cs` > > > Now I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to get them loaded automatically at boot > time. If I put any or all of the modules in /etc/modules, I get an error > message in the boot process very close to: > > ds: no socket driver! > > > and then after boot is finished, ds.o is loaded but not my driver > modules. I'm guessing this is because the init scripts are trying to > load the contents of /etc/modules before ds.o is loaded, which won't > work? Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > > Can someone explain what's happening here, and what the solution is get > everything loaded in the right order? I haven't found an answer in > /usr/share/doc/pcmcia_cs. > > kernel 2.4.27 > dell inspiron 8200 > > > Many thanks for any assistance.
Just a wild thought ... did you try adding ds to /etc/modules? (before the others of course). That is if ds.o is also a module (AFAIK modules now have the extension .ko) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]