>> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system KW> to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know KW> how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future KW> reference.
[Please use your quoting the other way round. I like to read from left to right and from *top* to *bottom* ] As root do a lsmod. You get an output like: lsmod# lsmod Module Pages Used by softdog 1 1 (autoclean) misc 1 [softdog] 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 1 2 (autoclean) nls_cp437 1 2 (autoclean) sound 24 0 vfat 4 2 fat 6 [vfat] 2 nls 1 [nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat] 0 smc-ultra 1 1 8390 2 [smc-ultra] 0 hisax 23 2 isdn 21 [hisax] 5 slhc 2 [isdn] 1 smc-ultra is the module for my NIC. - Shut down the use of the NIC ifconfig eth0 down - Change the configline in /etc/conf.modules options smc-ultra io=0x300 Now reload the module - Load the module modprobe smc-ultra You should see some output with tail /var/log/syslog - Reenable the networking /etc/init.d/network I like Linux, no reboot :-) Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null