Re: Newbish Q: Why modprobe.d *and* modutils?

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 02/18/04

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    On 18 Feb 2004 at 15:21:48, Darin Strait wrote:

    > I understand that modules.conf is deprecated in favor of
    > update-modules.

    Not exactly - update-modules is just designed to be a better
    way to manage modules.conf. It does not replace it.

    > I don't understand why I have a modprobe.d and a modutils
    > directory.

    The modutils directory is for modutils (for 2.4 kernels), and
    the modprobe.d directory is for module-init-tools (for 2.6
    kernels).

    > Should I be using one or the other or both?

    That depends on what kernels you use.

    2.4 only - use "apt get remove --purge module-init-tools" to
    remove module-init-tools and its config files (including the
    /etc/modprobe.d folder and /etc/modprobe.conf).

    2.6 only - Keep both, but only maintain modprobe.d

    Both 2.4 and 2.6 - keep and maintatin both

    Adam 

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