I upgrade all necessary packages (in kernel Documentation/Changes text file) for compile kernel 2.6.7 (with newer versions of the current minimal requirements).

o Gnu C
o Gnu make
o binutils
o util-linux
o module-init-tools
o e2fsprogs
o jfsutils
o reiserfsprogs
o xfsprogs
o pcmcia-cs
o quota-tools
o PPP
o isdn4k-utils
o nfs-utils
o procps
o oprofile

But the new kernel (2.6.x) has a problem that has happened to several people. The problem consists of non automatic loading of modules (for example, the "nvidia" module, to support all Gforce/Tnt/Fx cards from Nvidia).

The line in file /etc/modprobe.conf is perfect:

#########################
alias char-major-195* nvidia
#########################

(I test without <*> (asterisk) too, but it doesn't work yet).

The only way to may it works is manual load of modules, but it isn't the "correct" way.

Somebody could make it work, with AUTOMATIC load of these external kernel modules?.


Thanks.

I have this problem as well, and I work around it by adding the modules I need to /etc/modules. If it works, it's fine (in that case ).

I haven't any file called /etc/module. If you talk about to file /etc/modules.conf; the kernel 2.6.x use /etc/modprobe.conf, but not /etc/modules.conf (only for 2.4.x kernels).
All the modules I need to load for demand (automatic loading) are in the modprobe.conf file, as I indicated above.
The file modprobe.conf are generated by the script called generate-modprobe.conf, part of the module-init-tools package.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

so Redhat has an automatic module loading problem... no wonder some modules like usb-storage is never loaded even i compiled them as modules...
Anybody has any solution for this problem?

Cheers,
~WiLL~

The problem also happens in other Linux distributions, such as Suse and Slack. The real problem happens when someone tries to migrate from kernel 2.4 to kernel 2.6 (still having everything with newer versions of the current minimal requirements for kernel 2.6).
This problem not happend in Fedora Core 2, but if you would like to migrate from another kernel to this one, and you haven't a new Linux distributions, this problem appears. I discovered that the problem is not the modutils (the rpm package is called modutils-2.4.26 on Fedora Core 2, but it's module-init-tools-3.0alpha) for load modules. This it's the only progress in this problem.

Any aid is welcome.

Thanks.