[poky] load kernel module at startup

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:25:38AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/11/2011 02:38 AM, Gerard van den Bosch wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to modprobe my wireless driver kernel module at startup 
> > automatically.
> > 
> > This works when I generate a rootfs and then boot up the first time so 
> > the modules file gets generated and then I can manually add the kernel 
> > module in that file and then reboot.
> > 
> > When I look in the manpage of update-modules it states that a config 
> > file should be added in /etc/modutils but that directory is not in my 
> > rootfs.
> > 
> > So I was wondering what I have to do to get /etc/modutils directory or 
> > an other way to get the kernel module loaded at startup.
> > 
> > I am using the Poky 4.0 Laverne release.
> 
> I believe you can just add the name of the module to:
> 
> /etc/modules
> 
> Can you try that?

module_autoload_module_name to do that, is not supported in Poky?

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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