[Wlug] I got my sparc64 gentoo on the network

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:51:20PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote:
> Y means compile it into the kernel, so the code is always there.  M
> means compile it as a module (driver) so you can add / remove the code
> as necessary.  you can add modules that you want to
> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.X where x is the minor version number
> (4, 6) and the kernel will automatically load the module.  The other way
> to do this is to
> 
> modprobe <modulename>
> 
> if you only need the code every so often.

Or put it in /etc/modprobe.conf to load it on-demand, automatically, 
as needed.  E.g.:

alias eth0 sun-hme

Don't forget to run depmod -ae after editing that file.
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