Hello!

I have a Realtek 8185 wireless card. I found drivers for it and succesfully compiled them for my kernel.
This driver is a couple of .ko modules.
Rght now I have to load them with 'insmod' command.
Is there any way to make them load during boot?

I think it's possible to load them with a simple script consisting of 'insmod' commands starting on boot.
But I would like to put driver's modules into kernel modules directory and start them as any other modules. Is it possible?

Thank you for any help

Not knowing the distro the location of this place the commands can be place verys. I use Redhat type distros and place commands like that in /etc/rc.local script file.

Now when you built the modules did it go like this.
./configure
make
make install

If so then did you do ' make install ' as root?
Normally what would happen is it copies the files to where they ned to be. For modules they are copied to say under net and then the command ' depmod -a ' is run to update the system.map file to know modules exist and where. I would think if you copy them in the modules directory where other nic modules exist and then run depmod -a command it should recognise them and then you can use the modprobe command to load.

Brian

I am surprised that the make file for the drivers did not have an install section that would automatically put them into the kernel modules directory. In any case you could add them to the modules.conf file or modprobe.conf depending on what kernel you are running.

I'm sorry - it's Opensuse 10.3

I was surprised too - in installation manual it's written to run make & make install too. But in my version there is no such option as install in Makefile.
If I try to add it manually (read this from some forum) I get a message "nothing to install".
So that is why I have to install it manually.
Thank you for advices - will tr it soon.
Leonti

you can add them to your certain script file.

OK, but how can I run script under root while starting up my system? Where should I place my script?