How do you setup an automation script for modprobe?

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echo remove ipw3945;  /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; \

Putting a semicolon after the first command did not work.  I am still getting the warning.

WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945 line: 1: ignoring bad line beginning with 'echo'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945 line: 2: ignoring bad line beginning with 'echo'

The problem with the file format. The file was saved using the dos format.  Once I corrected this it worked.

Ignore my last comment, it refers to a different file.  I did copy the initialization file to the wrong directory.  The correct directory is modules.d but the script still does not work.

/etc/modules.d/ipw3945:

 echo install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; \
sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet >> /etc/modules.d/ipw3945

 echo remove ipw3945  /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; \
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 >> /etc/modules.d/ipw3945

      # modprobe ipw3945 <-- This command should load the module but it does not.
      # ps -C ipw3945d     <-- This command does not show the process

You *do* have to insert the semicolons that I mentioned earlier:

 echo install ipw3945; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; \

and

 echo install ipw3945; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; \

It still does not work.  But after doing a dostounix format I don't get the warning.  

Instead of using modprobe to load the module I put an initialization script in /etc/init.d.  The script loads the module but this prevents the network manager from starting.

#!/bin/sh
#
# ipw3945d:     Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG Wireless Daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
# description: Activates/Deactivates eth1 wireless interface (ipw3945)
#
# processname: ipw3945d
# pidfile: /var/run/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.pid
#
 
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=/usr
sbindir=/sbin
 
IPW3945D_BIN=${sbindir}/ipw3945d
 
# Sanity checks
[ -x $IPW3945D_BIN ] || exit 1
 
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 
# so we can rearrange this easily
processname=ipw3945d
servicename=ipw3945d
pidfile=/var/run/ipw3945d.pid
 
RETVAL=0
 
start()
{
        echo -n $"Starting Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG daemon: "
        daemon --check $servicename $processname --pid-file=$pidfile
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$servicename
}
 
stop()
{
        echo -n $"Stopping Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG daemon: "
        killproc -p $pidfile $servicename
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
                rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$servicename
                rm -f $pidfile
        fi
}
 
 
 
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
        start)
                start
                ;;
        stop)
                stop
                ;;
        status)
                status -p $pidfile $processname
                RETVAL=$?
                ;;
        restart)
                stop
                start
                ;;
        condrestart)
                if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$servicename ]; then
                        stop
                        start
                fi
                ;;
        *)
                echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}"
                ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL


#! /bin/bash
#
# network       Bring up/down networking
#
# chkconfig: 2345 10 90
# description: Activates/Deactivates all network interfaces configured to \
#              start at boot time.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: $network
# Should-Start: iptables ip6tables
### END INIT INFO

# chkconfig: 2345 10 90 <-- Network interface
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10  <-- Wireless daemon

I got it to work by changing the chkconfig values for ipw3945 script.

#checkconfig: 2345 98 10 <-- Wireless daemon
#checkconfig        - 92 2  <-- Network Manager