how to load the module automatically

[needee]

OS: SUSE LINUX 10 SP1
attached: /etc/modprobe.conf

I have to add the vmmon module by manually executing the 'modprobe vmmon' command.

how can i load it automatically at system boot.

following are the details

# lsmod |grep vmmon

# modprobe vmmon

# lsmod |grep vmmon
vmmon 509676 0

# modprobe --show-depends vmmon
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.12-smp/misc/vmmon.ko

# modinfo vmmon
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.12-smp/misc/vmmon.ko
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: BF31F4CC068BC05C3709657
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp SMP gcc-4.1

Regards

[waterhead]

You can add a file for it under /etc/modprobe.d/. Alternately, you can put it in the /etc/modprobe.conf.local file. I think that the format for either of these would be this:

options  vmmon

Look at the other modprobe.conf file for examples.

[needee]

I add the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modeprobe.conf.local, then reboot and got the following message at boot

WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 62: ignoring bad line starting with 'options'

WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf.local line 5: ignoring bad line starting with 'options'

any help would be highly appreciated
Regards
Maaz

[waterhead]

Since this is Suse, there is another way to do this.

Open YaST and click on the /etc/sysconfig section. Under the kernel section there is a line "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT". Add your module in the box. This has worked for me in the past.

Make sure you delete the lines that you added to the modprobe files.

[needee]

Thanks Nice help Dear

I've achieve the same by putting the complete path of modules in /etc/init.d/boot.local, now all the modules loaded automatically

Anyway Nice help