On Wednesday 19 May 2004 00:49, Adolfo Bello wrote: > I just jumped into the wireless bandwagon with a Belkin F5D7010 pcmcia > card. Previously I had installed the NVIDIA driver 1.0-5336. > > Every time I need to boot without the Belkin card plugged I lost X. I > can no boot to runlevel 5 no matter if I plug the card again. I found > out that this problem is easily solved adding the line "alias > /dev/nvidia* nvidia" to /etc/modprobe.conf, which for some reason is > deleted if I boot without the card plugged.. > > However, it really surprises me that plugging/unplugging a pcmcia card > somehow breaks the NVIDIA driver or modprobe.conf. > > I am using the Belkin card with the CD Windows XP driver under Linuxant > driverloader. Running Mandrake 10 Official with kernel 2.6.3-9. > > I wish I could get rid of this annoyance. Any hint will be truly > appreciated. > > Adolfo
Add the line to /etc/modules.conf Mandrake 10.0 is designed to support both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. In order to facilitate this there is a utility called generate-modprobe.conf which will create a modprobe.conf file from your modules.conf file. It seems harddrake calls this utility when it detects a change in your hardware and so is erasing your edits. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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