Re: Adding driver to repository

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Johan Kielbaey wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to add a driver to the SLES9 repository
> without altering the driverupdate?
> 
> The problem: To be able to install an IBM x306m I need
> to use an updatedisk for the RAID controller (module=
> adp94xx). To automate this I added the driver to the
> driverupdate. On an IBM x306m this works fine. However
> using the same driverupdate on an IBM x346 it also
> loads the adp94xx module, while it doesn't need it
> since the RAID controller is different. Besides the
> adp94xx it also detects and loads the correct module
> (ips). When rebooting the x346 it hangs after the
> message "proc unmounted. Please stand by while
> rebooting the system...". When I press CTRL-ALT-DEL it
> shows the message "shutdown: warning:
> cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid". Whenever I unload
> the adp94xx module on the x346 reboot goes fine.
> However the module is loaded again after reboot so i'd
> have to add scripts that will remove the module after
> each reboot or so. I can think of some ways to fix
> this with scripting, but the cleanest way is to add
> drivers to the repository and let the installer of
> SLES detect and configure the hardware.

Put a file 'module.order' in the directory with the modules and list only
those you want to load there (in your case: leave it empty).

This assumes the modules provide sufficient info to be automatically loaded
later by yast.


Steffen