[CentOS] future modprobe.conf

[Tom H]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> centos 5 had modprobe.conf entries for eth0 and if present eth1.
> something like:
> alias eth0 forcedeth
> alias eth1 e1000e
>
> For the new centos 6 (I have the rhel 6 client installed on my laptop)
> the modprobe.conf file is gone. Which is fine. I understand files can be
> created in /etc/modprobe.d and server the same purpose.
>
> My question is I dont see (doing a grep) any eth0 alias's in the files
> in /etc/modprobe.d/*
>
> My reason is when I have a system with 2 ethernet cards I used to have
> to specify the order
> of loading. Like:
> install e1000e /sbin/modprobe forcedeth; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
> e1000e
>
> So I used to grep for eth0 and eth1 do get the module names from
> modprobe.conf.

Pseudo one-word answer: udev