Russell Hires wrote:
> Thanks for this reply...
> On Sunday 21 October 2001 18:29, you wrote:
> > Russell, I just did a quick (very quick) look and it appears that ipddp0
> > has to do with an appletalk device.
> Where'd you look to find this out?
>
I just did a quick search on google for ipddp. Have to confess I didn't read
the articles.
> > Your network settings will be in /etc/network/interfaces
> This is the part that confuses me. I don't see "eth0" in there anywhere.
> Where else could it come from? And how does the OS know to call the second
> ethernet card "eth1"?
>
As far as I know, when the module is loaded it looks for the hardware and if it
finds something, that is eth0, the next one found would be eth1, etc.
>
> > If a module needs things listed such as io ports, an irq, etc. it should be
> > in a small file in /etc/modutils
> Which small file? I've got several in there. Among them is "aliases", which
> contains the rather confusing instruction to uncomment protocols you don't
> want to use...this is totally backwards from most things linux.
>
You create your own file for the hardware device, naming it anything you like,
and basically it just contains the entries you would make in modules.conf (in
Debian we're not supposed to directly modify that file). That would consist of
parameters that the module needs, system aliases, etc.
When you run update-modules, the info in your text file will be added to
modules.conf.
>
> > In Debian, you run update-modules to change the modules.conf file, using
> > the setup files created above
> >
> >
> > scott
> Thanks scott, 'preciate the help!
>
> Russell
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