in Andrew Walker's honest opinion:

> 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.

check whenever you are really using 2.6.x kernel...

in positive case try to go to single mode, login from console

<ALT>+<F1> through <ALT>+<F6>

login as root and now go to single mode

# init 1

now try to restart modules service which should notice you that you're
trying to reload a boot service but should anyway run and print something
like

# /etc/init.d/modules restart
* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
[...]
* WARNING: you are stopping a boot service.
* Saving random seed... [ ok ]
* Modules are up-to-date
* Using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 as config:
* Loading module 8250... [ ok ]
* Autoloaded 10 module(s)
* Checking all filesystems...

[...]

so, that's the way you could see if modules are autoloaded rightly - if not
try to copy to ng the output...
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.