Probably a very simple question, but I recently installed Slack 11 and am running 2.6.18 kernel. Everything is working fine or I am getting it there. My only real problem so far is that when adding the new kernel I used the .tgz package so I didn't get to opt for loading my acpi modules. No problem, did that later with insmod. Now to try to get the changes to stick I tried update-modules and I get the response
"command not found" so simple enough, it doesn't exist, but where do I find it? Also I wanted to add some power saving scripts to /etc/init.d
and it's not there. I know I fouled up somewhere but damned if I can figure it out.

In slackware you have the rc.d folder. There's no init.d folder. It uses BSD style init scripts.

Try adding "/sbin/modprobe" commands for your modules to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
The command "update-modules" is something of Debian I think.

Eric

Ok, thanks for pointing that out. Now I want to load the modules like processor.ko, fan.ko, battery.ko. The rc.modules file states that it will look for them under /lib/modules/<version> But they are actually located in /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/acpi

Do I assume that it will look that deeply into the directory?

Also, when I edit rc.modules would I include the .ko extension or no?

Like this maybe

### ACPI Power blah blah ###
/sbin/modprobe processor.ko

or

/sbin/modprobe processor

Any help I appreciate.

The module extension is not needed: Modprobe will know where to look.

Eric

Thanks, your the best!