Hi,

I have built the modules for rt3070 and successfully inserted it into the kernel. However, I can only insert the module by using insmod instead of modprobe. modprobe does not return any messages, but when I look at dmesg, nothing happened. But when I did insmod, it shows up in dmesg and I can use the card.

1. Why does modprobe not work to load the module? Isn't modprobe a frontend to insmod?

2. How can I load to module on boot? I have already listed it in /etc/modules, but I have to manually load it with insmod everytime.



thanks,
rabbit2345

to find out what modprobe is doing, use the verbose option.

modprobe -v

(see man modprobe for details)

Specific to your questions:
1. modprobe may be protecting you, insmod is more stupid. yes.
2. you can put it in a script to run at boot, but, if you solve the modproble question this one should be solved too.

In the following path, read "README" file and accordingly modify "boot.local".
But this path is OpenSuse specific, on other distros path may be different !!

Moved: This thread was moved to Linux Kernel as you requested to help your question get the exposure it deserves.

@rabbit: have you tried any of these suggestions yet?

Hey sorry for the delay, my internet totally dropped out on me for a few days.

Anyway, I did try running modprobe -v, but I get no output from the command.
However, it did begin to magically work somehow. I did not change anything yet, but now when I boot, it will automaticlly load the module. Is there a reason for this "magic"?



thank you,
rabbit2345

The only clue would be if you had saved your boot messages and compared with the non-working one.

I can only assume that something you have not disclosed is responsible. Perhaps there was an update? Maybe the gods just took pity on you?

I checked around an it looks like there was an update before it "magically started working". What an odd problem, but at least it's ok now.


thanks
rabbit2345