>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:59:40 GMT+1, Hichame Jeffali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> detection of all kind of network cards and also building a Just write a little hook which tries to load all network card drivers and then look if new cards are detected. What about: for driver in `ls /lib/modules/2.2.19/net/*` ; do modprobe $driver # test if new ethernet device is found; use ifconfig or dmesg,... done > floppy disk that just detects MAC addresses at startup and for > example highlights them in red and then rebuild the bootptab > file using a GUI. I would be interested to hear about your Sine the bootptab is located on the install server, it's impossible to change a file from an install server. What about collecting MAC addresses on this floppy ? -- Thomas