Re: where to get modprobe.conf?

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 08/04/04

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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:40:59 +0200

    Hello

    Erhard Schultchen (<eschultchen@gmx.de>) wrote:

    > I switched from linux 2.4 to 2.6 some months ago. AFAIK, 2.6's
    > module-init-tools use /etc/modprobe.d for module information such as
    > aliases.
    >
    > The manpage ( 5 modprobe.conf) also mentions the
    > /lib/modules/modprobe.conf file, wich (among others) the alsa init
    > script depends on. However, I am not sure how to obtain and maintain
    > this file - is there something like update-modules available for 2.6?

    If you install module-init-tools (which you did because without it you
    cannot load modules for 2.6), update-modules will create that file.
    This has however been abandoned in recent versions of
    module-init-tools. From the changelog.Debian:

    ,---
    |* Now /etc/modprobe.d/ is processed by modprobe. This means that
    | /etc/modprobe.conf and /lib/modules/modprobe.conf are not needed
    | anymore and update-modules is now a no-op. Executable scripts in
    | /etc/modprobe.d/ are not supported anymore.
    | /etc/modprobe.conf will be removed or moved to /etc/modprobe.d/.
    `---

    If you use unstable or testing, I recommend that you install
    apt-listchanges.

    best regards
            Andreas Janssen 

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