[ale] Module handling at boot

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 
> > If you have a module that needs to get loaded at boot time but you
> > forgot to include it when you ran menuconfig prior to compiling a
> > kernel, how do you fix it where it'll load at boot time?  In this case,
> >  it's the module for the NIC (RTL8139) and I assume (I haven't tried
> > it)  that if I booted it up and typed "insmod <module_name>" and then
> > "ifup  eth1" then my NIC would pop to life.  So I'm trying to make this
> > result  happen at boot time instead.
> >
> > - Jeff
> >
> >
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While quoting Lewis Carrol at the machine would probably be
worth a try under Windows, we have more effective measures
available with Linux :-)

Depending on your distribution, there should be some
rc.* files somewhere under /etc. On Slackware, I'd
edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, and add the appropriate
"modprobe" command for the network card to the top of
the file. I'm not sure how this works on Red Hat and
derivatives; I know their boot-script scheme is quite
different from Slack's though.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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