load module at startup

hobz · 03-08-2005, 02:16 PM

Finally after days of trial I was able to operate my scsi scanner acer prisa 310s after eabling scsi support in kernel
then typing the following command
modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181e=1

the question is where can I add this command to load the module at startup instead of invoking it manually each time???

Technoslave · 03-08-2005, 02:43 PM

You'll want to do a man -k modules and look at modinfo, modprobe, modules.conf and modules.dep.

I don't remember exactly what it is for RH 9, but it's /etc/modules.conf I think. Anyway, you'll want to put an entry in there for your scanner and it should load up everytime you reboot.

Short of that, you could always cheat, and depending on which init level you boot in to, you could create an init script and put it in rc3.d or rc5.d ... but that's cheating.

hobz · 03-08-2005, 06:36 PM

I created a shell scipt in /etc/rc5 and have written the modeprobe command and rebooted but the module did not load any other suggestions????

hobz · 03-08-2005, 07:44 PM

I just added /sbin/modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181e=1 to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
and it loaded at startup if there is any better soloutio just please let me know