Re: [SLUG] ISA Ethernet troubles (again)

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 17:40:16 EST


It's about as updated as the one that comes with woody (debian's "testing"
distribution) insmod -V reports 2.4.13...

Russell

On Monday 18 February 2002 12:42 pm, you wrote:
> How old is your version of modutils?
>
> Glen
>
> On Sunday 17 February 2002 20:30, you wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 February 2002 01:17 pm, you wrote:
> > > What eth card is this? Sounds like you're using the wrong module!
> > >
> > > Glen
> >
> > Well, it turns out that I have to tell the kernel (or whatever) exactly
> > where to find the module (as in,
> > insmod /lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o). I don't
> > understand exactly why that is, since I built the kernel from source. The
> > kernel should know where to find its modules. How can I get the kernel to
> > find the right modules at boot time?
> >
> > Yeah! One problem solved (my ISA ethernet finally works) and another
> > begins...
> >
> > Russell
> >
> > > On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:21, you wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > A couple of months back I was troubling over my unknown x86 box and
> > > > ethernet card. Well, I'm still troubling. I was able to get a
> > > > recent-ish kernel (2.4.10) to recognize the ethernet card, and the
> > > > isapnp tools are okay, but I don't know how to test anything. I still
> > > > get errors that say that the eth0 interface cannot be found
> > > > (modprobe: Can't locate module eth0). I've got it set up in my
> > > > aliases file, and I've followed the ethernet howto (somewhat)... I'm
> > > > getting nowhere fast...
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone help?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Russell



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