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04-05-2005

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hal

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add modules to kernel

hey
i' running mdk 10.1c on a toshiba laptop. i use an Asus w100g pcmcia to connect to wireless networks. for it to work, i "ndiswrapped" the win2k driver. it works just fine! what annoys me is the fact that everytime i boot the computer i need to add ndiswrapper to the kernel, by typing:

Quote:

$ su
$ **************
$ modprobe ndiswrapper

How can this be done automaticaly at boot time? any sugestions?

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dylunio Linux Guru Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cymru Posts: 4,157	add it (the above commadn) to rc.3 in /etc/rc.d (it could also be /etc/init.d/rd.3) and then it should run when you boot. dylunio __________________ Registered Linux User #371543! Get force-get May The Source Be With You /dev/null /dev/null2

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Flatline Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,204	Or rc.5 if you're booting into runlevel 5 (graphical boot). Dylunio, you beat me to it by about 3 seconds __________________ There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson

04-05-2005

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dylunio

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Flatline

Or rc.5 if you're booting into runlevel 5 (graphical boot). Dylunio, you beat me to it by about 3 seconds

I wouldn't advise rd.5, since it will only run if you reach runlevel 5, while rd.3 will run at runnlevel 3, and runlevel 5, so if you have a X problem at boot modprobe will be running.

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04-05-2005	#5 (permalink)
hal Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 69	damn you're fast! but..is it rc.3 or rd.3 ? i can't find neigher in those directories..

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Flatline Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,204	/etc/rc3.d __________________ There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson

04-05-2005	#7 (permalink)
dylunio Linux Guru Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cymru Posts: 4,157	hal, it is rc.3 (sorry for the typo) it could be in /etc/init.d/rc.3 /etc/rc.d/rc.3 or /etc/rc.3 dylunio __________________ Registered Linux User #371543! Get force-get May The Source Be With You /dev/null /dev/null2

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sdousley Linux Guru Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,767	or add ndiswrapper to the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-<version> __________________ "I am not an alcoholic, alcoholics go to meetings" Registered Linux user = #372327

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hal Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 69	i really dont have such a file. i only find rc3.d (dir) under that dir's and when i ran find it didnt return anything. thx anyway

04-05-2005

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hal

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ok. i just found the following file while searching for rc.3, add it, and it does work (just rebooted

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# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules

evdev
intel-agp
ndiswrapper

thank you guys