On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:23:15 -0800
Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> BTW, the advice someone else posted was wrong in one detail. If modprobe is 
> not finding modules.dep, then attempting "/sbin/modprobe 8139too" is 
> pointless. Instead, try "/sbin/insmod 8139too", since insmod does NOT 
> handle dependency issues so will not look for modules.dep . It may fail too 
> (if, for example, the module itself is not present), but at least it will 
> fail for a different reason.

Ah, yes, sorry, I forgot about module dependencies.  I'm using RH8.0 with the shipping 
kernel, 2.4.18-14, and the same network card also.  Installing it was simply a matter 
of ``modprobe'', and then ``redhat-config-network'' (nice GUI network wizard).

Yawar Amin
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Reply via email to