On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 13:55 +0100, Joachim Selke wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > Did you look in "services" to see if there is a new or old daemon to > > start?? > > Thanks for your help. Unfortunately there is no such service. > > I found out why the modprobe.conf line does not work as expected. It is > not ignored but cannot be executed the way it should be. The problem is > that the ipw3945 module is loaded by udev at a stage when the filesystem > is still mounted read-only. Hence, the ipe3945d daemon is not able to > create its pid file (and also my "touch /test" test failes). I found > this explanation here: > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/10/msg00483.html> > > So maybe I have to write my own service or I modify the modprobe entry > such that a script is started in the background that waits for the > filesystem to be mounted read-write and then starts the daemon. > Why not use the other recommended option of putting the line in /etc/rc.d/local.rc and have the daemon started from there. A simple one line command and it is done. local.rc is run as the last script during startup. > Joachim >
