This document is a very quick dump of module management in FC5, it needs reworking
and perhaps should be incorprated in another document?
*** REFACTOR AND MERGE ***

1. FC5 driver management The module-init-tools.i386 package is used to load and unload drivers, which are named "modules" in linux. Fedora Core uses modprobe(1) and rmmod(1) to load and unload a module, which it locates by looking for the corresponding .ko file in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. The package module-init-tools.i386 contains the required binaries for module management.

bash # rpm -qa |grep module-init-tools
module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.2.2.1
bash # rpm -ql module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.2.2.1

/etc/modprobe.d
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist
/sbin/depmod
/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf
/sbin/insmod
/sbin/insmod.static
/sbin/lsmod
/sbin/modinfo
/sbin/modprobe
/sbin/rmmod

FC5 loads user modules by executing all scripts in /etc/sysconfig/modules. Typically, the script should do a modprobe to install the module. E.g., to load a module "foo.ko",

bash # cd /etc/sysconfig/modules
bash # echo "modprobe foo.ko" > foo.module
bash # chmod 755 foo.module

Then on boot, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit will look for all executable files in /etc/sysconfig/modules and exec them.

QUESTION A. What's the order? Is /etc/sysconfig/modules loaded after /etc/modprobe.conf? B. What's the deal with /etc/modprobe.d? C. What's the story with the "alias" commands (in /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.dist) D. How does the "blacklist" work?

FC5 module loading from mail list http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=431575 After reading "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" I found that usermodules should lie in "/etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules" as executables, and did (echo "modprobe ndiswrapper" >> my.modules; chmod ugo+x my.modules). Now NetworkManager starts the wireless automatically after I log in. Now I'm satisfied, but if anyone have a more proper solution, or can confirm that this was the proper way to do it, I'm listening:-)