Re: Bug#271310: eth0 not identified

[Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:57:38 -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
>   eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:80:c2:e8
> 
> With the 2.6.8 kernel, it doesn't find it at all.

modprobe sunlance

or put 'sunlance' in /etc/modules...
Better yet, install discover1 and it'll all get done for you.

Fellow kernel maintainers: what's the best way to document the
modularization of the kernel images for 2.6? It used to be that kernel
images contained a built-in sunlance on sparc32, and a built in sunhme on
sparc64. I was interested in standardizing all this for simplicity (for
example, to make kernel udebs for sparc easier to build.) I fear that
using NEWS.Debian won't be obvious enough. And a debconf note seems
overkill, and I have no idea how to integrate that into the kernel image
package.

Or should I show no mercy? :)

-- 
Joshua Kwan