The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide - Inserting ftape
If you want to use the kernel's auto-loading mechanism, then all you
have to do is to follow the instructions given in the previous chapter
(see conf.modules). But note: in order to make auto-loading
of kernel modules possible the kerneld
program must be
running. Normally kerneld
is started from the system startup
scripts such as `/etc/rc.d/rc.local
'. The names of the system
startup scripts vary a lot between different Linux distributions;
`/etc/rc.d/rc.local
' need not even exist on your system.
With Linux v2.1.x and above you do not exactly need kerneld
for
auto-loading of modules, but you do need it for automated reaping of
kernel modules.
Use the following command to determine whether kerneld
is
running:
ps -ax|grep kerneld
If this doesn't produce any output or shows only the `grep kerneld
'
line and you need to start kerneld
yourself and change your
system setup.
ftape uses the kernel's module auto-loading facility to load the
FDC drivers specified with the ft_fdc_driver
option automatically
(see ftape.o
module options). So there is no need to
load these modules manually when your kernel supports auto-loading of
kernel modules. There is a separate section with further remarks about
ftape and module auto-loading. See Autoloading.
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