How to auto-load the driver module

[hiwa]

Fedora Core 3 provides legacy Advansys SCSI driver module since its
Feburary kernel updates, 760 and 766.

However, the driver won't be loaded automatically at system boot nor
at the first mount of the device, which is a removable magneto-optical
disk drive in my case, after boot.

Manual modprobe advansys command does the job.

But how could I make the system automatically load the module?

What's the differenc among:
(1)Booting auto-load. --- Red Hat 9 did it for Advansys
(2)First use auto-load.
(3)Manual modprobe load.
?

Thanks in advance.

[JamminJoeyB]

I'll take a stab at this one and try to help you out. I'd just go and have it load at startup. That way it's available to you all the time.

You'll just need to edit the rc.modules file and add a line in there to do it. I'm pretty sure that is the file. There might be another one, but it's been a while since I had something that I needed to do that for.

If you do a search on these forums there are plenty of posts on how to get a module to load at start up. The threads are more detailed then my answer becuase it's already been covered a number of times.

[hiwa]

Thanks Jammin.
But, rc.modules is a Slackware init file.
My distro is Fedora Core 3.

[JamminJoeyB]

I thought rc.modules was a standard way of getting modules to load at boot no matter what the distro. I did a google search for "fedora core 3 rc.modules" and found this
http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/fedora/

and this

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-27258.html

and this

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg00782.html

Seems the last one seems to be the prefered method for fedora. I still stand by my first answer as being mostly correct.

I will now honor the memory of the late great mdwatts. Seach First ask Second. A quick search on google/linux would have answered this just as quickly for you.