Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Steffen . Pelzetter
This isn't really an alpha-specific question, as the modprobe stuff is the same whatever debian platform you use... Ok sorry, you are right. But I put the question to the alpha port, because the tulip cards are older ones and no more used by x86 systems. If it was a tulip spezific problem - I

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Steffen . Pelzetter
Something is not working. You can simply put: options tulip options=5 in any (new) file under /etc/modprobe.d/ (I'd suggest /etc/modprobe.d/tulip) I created the tulip file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options tulip options=5 But dmesg say's:

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:34:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can simply put: options tulip options=5 in any (new) file under /etc/modprobe.d/ (I'd suggest /etc/modprobe.d/tulip) I created the tulip file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options tulip options=5 Is there any reason in your

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created the tulip file in /etc/modprobe.d/ : options tulip options=5 If you have more than one NIC that's driven by tulip, then perhaps you need options=5,5 or something like that... BTW, I use de4x5, not tulip. That works better for me.

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Steffen . Pelzetter
If you have more than one NIC that's driven by tulip, then perhaps you need options=5,5 or something like that... Ok this works fine for modprobe. This sytax is exactly what I was looking for. But we have found out, that my tulip driver is loaded with initrd. Any idear how to put the options

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have more than one NIC that's driven by tulip, then perhaps you need options=5,5 or something like that... Ok this works fine for modprobe. This sytax is exactly what I was looking for. But we have found out, that my tulip driver is

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-31 Thread Steffen . Pelzetter
No... that's why I never use initrd, too much hassle to modify trivial things. Ok, I've solved the problem. I created a the file tulip in /etc/modprobe.d like Paul suggested: options tulip options=5,5 After that both nic's where configured correctly by running modprobe tulip Perhaps

Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-25 Thread Steffen . Pelzetter
Hello, I'm proudly using Etch on my two Alpha Server 4100 (Rawhide) for about 2 Month now. There is only one thing I can't solve. My network card in the originally NIC DEC 21xxx using the tulip.ko module with 2.6.18-4-alpha-generic . The driver is loaded and the network is running too, but with

Re: Where to put module option in Etch?

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 25 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I made a test : rmmod tulip modprobe tulip options=5 The driver is loaded with 100 FDX and the performance is as expected. Now I want to give the option value to the driver at boot time. I was suprised that I couldn't find a