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Re: modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]



On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:30:06AM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
> > > this relates to a problem i've been having as well -
> > > 
> > > do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x module (if
> > > any)?  i have a 3CSOHO100-TX card.
> > 
> > modinfo -p 3c59x
> 
> what am i looking for when i run this?

nnorman@canaris:~ $ modinfo -p 3c59x
debug int
options int array (min = 1, max = 8)
full_duplex int array (min = 1, max = 8)
rx_copybreak int
max_interrupt_work int
compaq_ioaddr int
compaq_irq int
compaq_device_id int

What you see is a list of parameters on the left-hand side followed by
the option type.  Admittedly this information isn't very explicit and
you almost always have to look at the driver source to figure out what
values to fill in (particularly in the case of full_duplex :)

Sometimes you can use the file

  /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt

to find these values and their descriptions; in the 3c59x case this
doesn't seem to work.

I don't want to say much more without knowing what sort of problems
you're actually having.  If you're trying the 3c905C for example your
problem is almost certainly the driver version.

HTH,

-- 
Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better
Micromuse Inc.                 | than a perfect plan tomorrow.
mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com   |   -- Patton

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