Comments on: Reader Question: Why is there no /etc/modules.conf in Ubuntu?

By: guojun

guojun — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:56:10 +0000

You could have a look at the folling two files:
/etc/module-init-tools
/etc/module
you may find something

By: peter

peter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:35:06 +0000

I find that the modules.conf has been replaced by /etc/modeprobe.conf in the Fedora Core!

By: derry

derry — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:26:20 +0000

in 2.6 OS

the /etc/modules.conf was replaced by /etc/modprobe.conf

and since this is not in Ubuntu been replace by

/etc/modprobe.d (which contains the modules in scripts anyways)

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:31:01 +0000

Methinks you’re right. I have an /etc/modules.conf on my Debian server and it has sections (like alias, for example) that look like individual files in my /etc/modules.d director on my Kubuntu box.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:15:47 +0000

I’m not really sure, but I’ve been starting to notice that folders ending with .d seem to be a place to put a load of individual files that together constitute a whole configuration file. Like init.d and (in Fedora) yum.repos.d. Kind of like they make your conf files modular.

So maybe you don’t need a modules.conf because Ubuntu splits all the files out into modules.d, to make it a bit easier to manage?