Bug#324610: install bug

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:41:38AM +1000, Chris Phillips wrote:
> Package: Install
> 
> Version: Sarge
> 
> Hi, I have recently (2 weeks ago) installed Sarge using a recent
> netinstall cd image on an old PII at home. I selected the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> The PC has a ISA NE2000 ethernet card which is *not* PNP (it is about
> 10years old). The installation went OK (needed to tell it the kernel
> module to use and irq/io address). However when rebooted the ethernet card
> would not work, unless I insmod'ed the ne module with the irq=0x340
> option.
> 
> It turns out that the insaller had set up these options in the
> /etc/modules.conf instead of /etc/modprobe.conf. Copying the options file
> across fixed the problem.

Debian uses /etc/modprobe.d/* not /etc/modprobe.conf

Creating /etc/modprobe.conf breaks everything in /etc/modprobe.d since
it is now ignored.  So don't do that.  Add it to a file in modprobe.d
instead (name it ne or ne2k or whatever you think makes sense).

> I suggest the installation process needs a minor 2.6 update for these
> situations.

Len Sorensen