Re: Network Cards
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
| > Matthew Sackman(matthew@sackman.co.uk) is reported to have said:
| > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/
| > >
| > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces,
| > > and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases?
| > > If so why?
| > >
| >
| > Only if you compiled the NIC driver as a module. You probably have it
| > compiled into the kernel. I (we) assumed he had 'not' compiled it
| > into the kernel. My only excuse for that is that is how I do it and
| > he didn't say which method he used. :-( I assumed again, darn it.
Yeah, I figured he had a pre-packaged kernel which includes everything
as modules so as to minimize the _need_ for recompiling.
| It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being
| anything relating to eth0 anywhere under /etc/modutils.
|
| Weird - I simply never knew this should be there. In fact, come to
| think of it, on all the boxes I've set up I've never put eth0 in there
| and I've never had a problem.
|
| Any ideas?
Maybe the kernel is better at identifying the module automagically?
If you run 'lsmod' does it show the natsemi module?
-D
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