how are kernel modules loaded at boot?
 

I am working on a live cd based off Debian Etch and the driver for the nic is not being loaded at boot so I have to load it manually. What I would like to know is how modules are loaded automatically. Is there some daemon that takes care of this? I don't want to just add the driver to /etc/modules because I would like the proper driver to load so that it will work on different machines.

Thanks

Create a file called /etc/modprobe.conf.local. Make an entry like this:
substituting yor NIC and module names.

No simple way?
 

But what if you don't know what will be the card in the machine?
Do you have to put all possible module in there and the kernel will choose the correct one? There must be a simpler way...

Thanks

Claude