You should load it into an init script. You can either put it into a runlevel
directory, e.g. /etc/rc3.d/ with a separate script name somthing like
'S55advansys' (the number signifying the run order for that script during the
runlevel change), or load it into rc.sysinit sometime after you've mounted
your drives. All you'd have to do is this:
#!/bin/bash
...
/sbin/modprobe advansys #probably all you really need
/sbin/insmod advansys # probably redundant
...
remember that rmmod, insmod, and modprobe are the same binary file now with
different names - have been for about 2-3 years (a lot of people don't
realize this). Usually, a call to modprobe with the name of the module or its
alias (from /etc/modules.conf) should load a module if it's not loaded, and
remove it if it is.
Many distros autoload anything in modules.conf at boot time - I think
Mandrake does. But that's OK, I usually change just about everything about a
system soon after loading anyway.
If anything here doesn't work they way I said it does, I never said it ;)
Glen
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 01:46 am, you wrote:
> I'm sure this is an easy question for you folks.
>
> I'm successfully loading a SCSI driver for my Advansys card in my
> RH7.1 system. I use the following manual method:
>
> PROMPT> modprobe advansys
> PROMPT> insmod advansys
>
> Without adding this to an rc file, how do I have this load
> automagically? /etc/modules.conf?? It seemed not to work last time,
> but maybe it was the syntax.
>
> /mario
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