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enricotognoni
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 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:30 am Post subject: i dont know about modules to install |
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im compiling kernel right now, next step is to list all available modules and then i dont know what to do about nano -w /etc/conf.d/modules is genkernel all enough? I dont have special hardware, usb key, hd external, mobile internet key, wireless mouse, do i have to know something about, or to install something necessary?
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The Doctor
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You can ignore that. Chances are you will not need to auto load any modules. The system is great about loading the needed modules by itself. If it misses any, you will get a clue, ie no sound or something.
EDIT: From what I understand, that step is a bit of a legacy thing. The system did not used to be as good at knowing which modules to load.
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BillWho
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enricotognoni,
No need to worry about it. In-tree kernel modules will load.
If you should later decide to install virtualbox, then you would have to add its modules to /etc/conf.d/modules 
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cach0rr0
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| The Doctor wrote: | You can ignore that. Chances are you will not need to auto load any modules. The system is great about loading the needed modules by itself. If it misses any, you will get a clue, ie no sound or something.
EDIT: From what I understand, that step is a bit of a legacy thing. The system did not used to be as good at knowing which modules to load. |
basically. unless you dont use udev
udev should be hotplugging modules as needed nowadays
if you dont use udev, you still need that. But, most everyone uses udev
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mv
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| There are several things which do not load automatically since they are not associated to a particular hardware or kernel call (IIRC some pptp, iptables stuff, some special filesystems (aufs, squashfs?), of course things like zram if compiled as a module etc). |
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roravun
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mv,
I thought iptables related modules are loaded by /sbin/iptables itself, upon issuing particular command. |
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Ottre
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I've noticed that when you insert a CD the kernel can't tell if it's a read-only CD-R (and should load sr_mod) or a read-write CD-RW (and should load sr_mod + sg).
Most other hardware-related modules are loaded for you automatically. |
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mv
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| roravun wrote: | | I thought iptables related modules are loaded by /sbin/iptables itself, upon issuing particular command. |
Maybe for some, but not for the majority of commands: You just get an error message from iptables.
As a related issue, cryptsetup also just gives an error if the required encryption algorithm is only an unloaded module. |
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