Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270763AbTHOTHb (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:07:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270750AbTHOTFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:05:36 -0400 Received: from Sina.Sharif.EDU ([81.31.160.35]:10149 "EHLO sina.sharif.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270755AbTHOTFF (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:05:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:40:21 +0430 (IRST) From: Behdad Esfahbod To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Auto Module Loading Question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1246 Lines: 39 Hi, It is off-topic, but I couldn't find the answer by Googling. I have installed 2.6.0-test2 and module-init-tools-0.9.13-pre2 on my RedHat 9 system. Now I have two problem: First one is that mount does not load needed modules automatically, so refuses to mount if the module for the filesystem is not loaded. When I load it and retry, it mounts. The other problem is that, in the old era, I would simply put a line of 'alias char-major-10-144 nvram' in my /etc/modules.conf, and reading from /dev/nvram would load the module and work. Now there is a line for that in auto-generated /etc/modprobe.conf, but 'cat /dev/nvram' errs: cat: /dev/nvram: No such device The same problem is with some other modules, including loop. But some drivers, like rtc and cdrom have been loaded themselves. Help is welcome, behdad PS. Please keep me CCed -- Behdad Esfahbod 24 Mordad 1382, 2003 Aug 15 http://behdad.org/ [Finger for Geek Code] If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/