From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbfFE-0004pg-9y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:41:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D4B4E0328; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail.mailasail.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29073E0328 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.2.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B5AB8833A for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:41:45 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.2.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.2.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Pe4s3CkFSkl6 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:41:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from ed-wildgooses-macbook-pro.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11536B88339 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:41:44 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4A845E68.1060803@wildgooses.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:41:44 +0100 From: Ed W User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Automatic module loading not working? References: <4A83E986.9080403@wildgooses.com> In-Reply-To: <4A83E986.9080403@wildgooses.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: af66f6ae-b6c0-4109-abbc-31bd8f62d574 X-Archives-Hash: d26cb78ae6c1cedca90e0bfe7ed28937 Ed W wrote: > Hi, I apologise if this is a very newbie question, but - I have an > Alix board and custom kernel which doesn't seem to be autoloading > kernel modules > > The Alix is running 2.6.29, uclibc 0.9.30.1, busybox 1.14.2, Udev 141, > openrc 0.40. When I insert any hardware, eg trying now with a USB GPS > then I get a bunch of general USB nodes created, but the pl2303 module > (used with this device) is not auto loaded. If I modprobe this module > then everything works as expected. Hmm, the problem appears to be in busybox. If you use the "small" modprobe utils then something is obviously not supported correctly and the kernel modules are not autoloaded. I suspect some kind of commandline param not supported issue, but have not debugged it further. Hopefully this helps someone else... Ed W