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

[Mick]

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@×××××.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

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Regards,
Mick