[CentOS] question about modproble.conf

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 17:37:45 UTC 2007


Their was multiple post and thread about this in the list.
The main subject was: controlling module load order

Here is the last one, look for the other.

Regards

On 8/31/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> >Jerry Geis wrote:
> >>/ Is there a method to control module load order?
> />>/
> />>/ I want to ensure that the e1000 module loads before the forcedeth driver.
> /
> >The following might work in /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> >install forcedeth /sbin/modprobe e1000; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install forcedeth
> >
> >James Pearson
>
> James - fantastic,
>
> I tried this and it worked. Thanks!
>
> Jerry


On 9/12/07, ann kok <annkok2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can I ask question about modprobe.conf? I think fedora
> is same as Centos.
>
> I have 1 x 4 ports broadcom NIC and 1 x 2 ports Intel
> NIC installed in fedora 6 system
>
> in /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> the module:
> aliase e1000 eth0
> aliase e1000 eth1
> aliase tg3   eth2
> aliase tg3   eth3
> aliase tg3   eth4
> aliase tg3   eth5
>
> but the dmesg|grep eth
> eth4 and eth5 is intel card
>
>
> but i change to the moderprobe and reboot
>
>
> aliase tg3   eth0
> aliase tg3   eth1
> aliase tg3   eth2
> aliase tg3   eth3
> aliase e1000 eth4
> aliase e1000 eth5
>
>
> dmesg |grep eth
>
> eth0 and eth1 becomes intel card
>
> As I add additional and remove NIC before so that I
> removed HW line HW address in all
> /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-ethX file
>
> Now. the system seems random in above option 1 and
> option 2 after rebooting everytime!
>
> Thank you for your help
>
>
>
>
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