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Re: whatis kerneld?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Oct 22 15:48:31 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:39:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199610221833.UAA00591@pc.polytechnique.fr>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Olivier Klein wrote:
> I have a couple of naive questions that bothers me about the kernel
> 2.0 system.
> At boot time I have my vertex 3c59x getting loaded as a module. I do
> not understand however how this happens. I am not using anymore the
> /boot/inird file anymore (scsi driver is inserted in the kernel) and I
> deleted any reference to the card in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ ?? Where
> else can he be looking?
/etc/conf.modules
> The bottom line is: I am ignorant of the difference between the
> /sbin/kerneld and the /sbin/insmod command.
kerneld uses /etc/conf.modules to figure out how to fulfill kernel
requests from the available modules. It also has some device number/name
mappings built into it.
> Also, I do not have the kerned icon in the control-panel? (I did an
> upgrade from redhat3.0.3 to redhat4.0)
Instal the "kernelcfg" package.
Erik
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