Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

On 05/15/2014 10:50 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2014 14:24:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm, Alexander Kapshuk 
> <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> …
>>>>>> If you like to check if RTL8192CE is enabled in  your kernel's .config
>>>>>> file. If it isn't, you probably want to compile it as a module, and
>>>>>> then add rtl8192ce to /etc/conf.d/modules as well.
>>>>> Am pretty sure there's no need to add this one to /etc/conf.d/modules -
>>>>> IME it'll just be found and loaded automagically by the kernel.
>>>> Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of that. As I mentioned in
>>>> my previous post, I do not use genkernel myself.
>>> Neither do I - for this reason I found it a little frustrating trying to
>>> help in a recent thread, myself.
>>>
>>> However, I'm pretty sure that loadable kernel modules behave the same
>>> whether your kernel is built "by hand" or by genkernel - if you have
>>> modules listed in /etc/conf.d/modules then I have to wonder if you
>>> really need them there.
>>>
>>> I haven't used that file for years, and I prefer to compile everything as
>>> a module, too.
>>>
>>> Stroller.
>> That's interesting. I wasn't aware of that either.
>>
>> So far, I've just been following the instructions given in the handbook,
>> section 7.d, which do recommend explicitly specifying the kernel modules
>> to be loaded at boot time in /etc/conf.d/modules.
>>
>> How does the kernel know then what modules to load at boot time, if it
>> doesn't rely on /etc/conf.d/modules to supply the list of modules to be
>> loaded?
>>
>> Does it use udev, or some other mechanism for that?
>>
>> Thanks.
> I understand it is udev magic which probes the hardware and it fetches the 
> corresponding module from the kernel, as long as it has been compiled.  
> Incidentally, I noticed that I now have this running on my system:
>
> /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd --daemon
>
Understood. Thanks. I too have systemd-udevd running now that you
mention it.