In alt.os.linux.gentoo, Andrew Walker uttered the immortal words:

> I'm having great trouble trying to get modules to load during boot up.
> Initially it was just my joydev modules but it appears it is also the
> serial port module 8250
> I have added both to
>
> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
>
> but they both seem to be ignored. Once booted up I do modprobe 8250 and
> lirc then works and modprobe joydev and my joystick works.
> Any idea why they don't load the first time, my error logs show nothing is
> wrong.

Did you run "modules-update"?

--
Andy.