Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card problem part 2
Quoting Fredrik Jonsson (fredrik@combonet.se):
>
> What I was trying to do was to compile the 3c509 driver hard into the
> kernel with "modconf" and was geting only errors. Many suggested to load
> the driver as a module insteed so I have put the line "alias eth0 3c509"
> in to the file "conf.modules" via update-modules command.
I don't know what you are intending to do with that line.
I would remove any references to eth0 or 3c509 in /etc/modutils/*
(and update-modules), and put into /etc/modules the line:
3c509
This will insert it at boot time and keep it there (no autoclean).
Cheers,
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