On Tue Feb 29 2000 at 13:15, "David Knaack" wrote:
> From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Mon Feb 28 2000 at 13:39, "David Knaack" wrote:
> > > I realize this is probably a total newbie question, but I can't
> > > seem to find it addressed in detail anywhere. I've consulted
> > > 4 linux books and all the relevant HowTo's, but I'm still not
> > > clear how how to tell RedHat 6.1 that I have a network card.
> >
> > There are redhat tools like netcfg and linuxconf that will allow you
> > to set all this up. Especially linuxconf as it manipulates
> > /etc/conf.modules to set up the ethernet drivers for you. For
> > example, here I have a 3com 509B card, and it sets it up like this:
>
> I found the module option in linuxconf basic networking section, which
> I had overlooked before. The NIC docs say its ne2000 compatible, but
> so far I haven't been able to get it working. I'll play with it some
> more tonight. I think something else is broken at the moment and is
> preventing things from working.
>
> Thanks for the pointer,
Make sure that depmod -a has been run at bootup to create
/lib/modules/2.2.<whatever>/modules.dep On redhat boxes, this should
be done by default.
IIRC, the ne2000 cards need to have the 8390.o module loaded as a
dependency.
Also, there are two different drivers, one for the older ISA cards
(ne.o), and another for the PCI variety (ne2k-pci.o). Make sure you
specify the right one. (I would hazzard a guess that this is your
problem).
Have a look at the documentation in either the kernel-doc package
(/usr/doc/kernel-doc-*/networking/*) or the kernel-sources
(/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/*). There's a massive bunch
of documentation about all the network drivers in there.
Also check out the man pages for all the module utilities:
rpm -ql modutils | grep man
That will give you a list of these man pages... quite a few. The
/sbin/modinfo utility can be particularly useful if you need to know
what parameters a driver module can accept to modify it's behaviour.
There's documentation everywhere - although it's often a case of not
knowing where to start. Even the utilities themselves have useful
help screen output.
Cheers
Tony
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