On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:03:29AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:25:10AM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
Oops, this popped out of moderation a bit late because I sent it from the wrong address.
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: But this *isn't* necessary when I reboot, the kernel somehow automagically finds that it needs the r1000 module and loads it. It's this that I find a bit disconcerting.
That suggests that you've got either discover or udev installed. It's not magic, they go off and look through the hardware and then load the modules associated with it.
Yes, I seem to have udev. The trouble is that other documentation (i.e. that about modules and kernel building for example) doesn't keep up with these changes so they still tell you how to add the module manually.
I'm not too worried, it all works now, the real trouble is that I do this infrequently enough that I've usually forgotten all I learnt the previous time I did it. Not to mention that the rules change subtly! :-)