thanks for the advice, but that was the directory that I checked for the drivers, and those are the closest modules for my hardware, yet the console came back with the cannot locate module error, and I still have no idea whats up with the autodetect and why it freezes on scanning eth16i.
---- On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, brett holcomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Check out the /lib/modules/version (version is the kernel > version such as 2.4.20...) directory and see if you can > find any modules that look like they are for your card and > then do them manually. Maybe they aren't named what you > called them in the modprobe command. > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:17:22 -0500 > Benjamin Lamothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >and modprobe orinoco_pci.o, but they all > >came back with the error message "modprobe > >cannot locate the specified modules." I > >even tried modprobe and the entire path to > >whicever module, but the same thing > >happened. I would really see what is wrong > >with the autodetect though, and prefereably > >use that as the means of installing kernel > >modules, but if that is impossible, I would > >then like to use modprobe. Thanks alot. > > > > > > > >---- On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bruno Lustosa > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> * Benjamin Lamothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[31-01-2003 15:06]: > >> > The first time I tried to install Gentoo, > >> > the boot process froze while it was trying > >> > to auto detect an ethernet interface. I > >> > then passed the "nonet" option at the boot > >> > prompt and everything went fine, but when I > >> > tried to manually install the kernel modules > >> > for my hardware using the "modpobe" command, > >> > the shell cries that it could not locate the > >> > module that I typed. What can I do to fix > >> > these problems? I would much rather have > >> > the shell autodetect my hardware, but if I > >> > have to manually load the modules, thats > >> > fine, but now I can't do either. Please > >help! > >> > >> How did you try to load the module using > >modprobe? > >> What's the module name, by the way? > >> > >> -- > >> Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ > >UIN: 1406477 > >> Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | > >> > > > > > >________________________________________________ > >Get your own "800" number > >Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more > >http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
