Ok, now I'm very confused. My output looks exactly like yours below,
yet I get better results with insmod. How does that make any sense?
What's "value of $0?" An "echo $0" returns "-bash."
/mario
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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.
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>Did you look? (BTW- this is Mdk, not RH so YMMV)...
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> $ which insmod
> /sbin/insmod
> $ which modprobe
> /sbin/modprobe
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> $ 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
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>> 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.
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>man modprobe and insmod for gory details...
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>- --
>If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space...
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