Re: Network configuration
>Read the kernel HOWTO and compile support directly >into the kernel for
>ne2kpci. You probably don't want the driver to be >modular, unless you
>rarely need to use your nic, and you have limited RAM >resources.
There IS a good reason for NOT compiling stuff into the kernel that is
ALWAYS used, and that is to keep the size of the thing down. At some
point you end up with a kernel that is TOO BIG to boot, even though
almost EVERYTHING compiled in is really in use most of the time. (Not
MY system, but an overstuffed server that is also a router and a
firewall could end up that way.) The 'Universal kernels' used for
boot/install disks HAVE to be modular so as to be able to support ANY
scsi card or Network card present at boot time.
Now having said all that, most people should probably build everything
they use into the kernel for their desktop systems EXCEPT for the
sound card which 90% of the time needs ISAPNP to work and therefore
MUST be a module as it has to load AFTER init has configured the card
via ISAPNP. (same would apply to pnp modem cards, network cards, etc
that can't have pnp disabled).
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