[PLUG] loading lirc_gpio on boot

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote:

> Anyone? Please :)
>
>> I am able load the modules after the box is up by running "modprobe 
>> lirc_gpio" as root. I was under the impression that adding the 
>> above line to /etc/modprobe.conf was all that I needed to do in 
>> order to have this modules loaded at startup.

Linux distributions provide varying mechanisms for loading modules at 
boot time:

* Debian

   echo "lirc_gpio" >> /etc/modules

* Gentoo (modify target file to kernel-2.4 if appropriate)

   echo "lirc_gpio" >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

* Red Hat/Fedora

   echo "/sbin/modprobe lirc_gpio" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local

* SuSE

   echo "/sbin/modprobe lirc_gpio" >> /etc/rc.d/boot.local

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>