Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

I'm running SuSE 10.0 and have run into a surprising problem: I can't load the 
modules listed in modprobe.conf using modprobe.  If I just type "modprobe", I 
get:

suillus:~ # modprobe
Usage: modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-o <modname>] 
<modname> [parameters...]
modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] <modulename> ...
modprobe -l -t <dirname> [ -a <modulename> ...]

This usage differs in a critical respect from the usage given in the manpage: 
it does not allow modprobe to be called with no arguments (the first line 
requires <modname>).  The manpage says that calling modprobe with no 
arguments loads the modules in /etc/modprobe.conf.  

This leads to two questions:

(1) Is there a version of modprobe around that corresponds to the manpage and 
still is up to date?

(2) If not, how can I get the existing modprobe to load /etc/modprobe.conf?

Paul