Hi,

I have googling around for a few weeks trying to figure out the whole kernel module mess. I built LFS, and am working on blfs, and more, and i need to use modules and want to modularize the kernel as much as I can. I am currently using linux-2.4.23, and am confused. do i have to put every module in /etc/modules.conf. How do i automate the whole process insmod isn't very convienent. I have read about kerneld, found out it was obseleate. So i guess the kernel modules howto is superfluous. I read about kmod, but i am confused about what it is, is it a daemon a kernel internel thing. How do i configure it, or is it obseleate also. please help linux is really pissing me off.

thanx, joe

Hi,

Is kmod a daemon or a kernel thread only, and do i need a startup script for it I'm still using linux-2.4.x so I beleive i use kmod, i ran depmod -c and it listed my modules where loaded that are part of the kernel package. I installed alsa-1.0.4, and i put all the aliases in my /etc/modules.conf file so now i want to use them, but they do not load when i boot or try to restore the mixer settings. I can manually load them with modprobe however. I was wondering if i have kmod configed properly or what the deal is i don't trust kernel documentation to be up to date or any googled material. Please help me or at least guide me to good lit on this subject i really want to get my first linux box working.

thanx joe

Not sure if this works with LFS, but is there an /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.4 file? That's the file (in Gentoo at least) where I put all the references to the modules I want loaded during startup. Pardon me if that's not how it's done in LFS.

Dave