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On Thursday 29 August 2002 17:13, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> Glen, modprobe and insmod in RH7.1 seem not be the same file.
Did you look? (BTW- this is Mdk, not RH so YMMV)...
$ which insmod
/sbin/insmod
$ which modprobe
/sbin/modprobe
$ ls -l /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93660 Sep 11 2001 /sbin/insmod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 23 2001 /sbin/modprobe ->
insmod
> When I
> run modprobe alone it returns with the shell prompt. When I run
> insmod, it sends all kinds of toplevel information to the console,
> stdout whatever, and it loads the driver successfully.
insmod performs differently based on the value of $0 (the program name).
modprobe will read the /etc/modules.conf file to load any dependancies.
man modprobe and insmod for gory details...
- --
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space...
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