how to influence load order of kernel modules

Stefan Farrenkopf sfarren at gwdg.de
Thu Jul 3 03:36:41 PDT 2003


Hi again,

I would like to correct the information I send before.

After I rebooted my machine once more (by starting vmware :( ) I had to 
realize, that the vmware.sh stop/start procedure is obviously not always 
sufficient.
Without starting any applications I opened a Terminal window and started 
vmware and it got up without booting my box.

So I suppose the problem is somewhere else. But I would still like to know 
how I can influence the load order of kernel modules, even if it does not 
solve my problem ;)

best wishes,
Stefan


--On Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:34:22 +0200 Stefan Farrenkopf 
<sfarren at gwdg.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> first of all about the background of my question:
> if I start vmware (version 2 from the ports tree) on my FreeBSD 4.8
> system, the system reboots :(( I found that if I restart
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh (stop, start) the kernel module vmmon gets
> unloaded and loaded again and I get a new order in the kldstat list (see
> below). I am wondering how I can influence the initial load order of
> kernel modules, because the problem with vmware my disappear if vmmon is
> always loaded after if_tap.ko (which is also part of the vmware.sh
> script, but which does not unload by vmware.sh stop).
>
> Thanks for you help,
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
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