Bug#1031721: closed by Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (Re: Bug#1031721: udev fails to autoload kernel modules (wifi, sound, video, bluetooth, thermals))

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.10.23 um 23:33 schrieb Sohum Banerjea:
> Hi there. Apologies — I just missed your previous email.
> 
> I can confirm the problem still reproduces on 254.5-1. To be clear: my 
> symptoms are that I have at this point collected the list of modules my 
> system needs to run, and listed them in /etc/modules. If I remove, say, 
> iwlwifi from them, I boot into a system that does not have iwlwifi 
> loaded, and thus no wifi functionality, until I manually modprobe iwlwifi.
> 
> It was merely a guess that it couldn't find hwdb, based on those log 
> lines — if they are not unusual, then that guess falls apart. I'm 
> willing to do any further log collection or investigation required, but 
> I would need instructions on how to do so.
> 
> What exactly is responsible for autoloading kernel modules based on 
> hardware? Maybe it would help if I gained familiarity with that code file?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Modalias
https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP5/html/SLES-all/cha-udev.html#sec-udev-drivers
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter09/udev.html

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