Re: why does eth0 require modprobe?
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:53:50AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> For those of you who have been following with baited breath the
> ongoing saga of my boot floppies: I am now loading a kernel from
> floppy #1 and a compressed root image from floppy #2, at which point I
> get a shell enabling me to mount floppy #3 and copy additional goodies
> from it. Having arrived this far, I crossed my fingers and ran
> 'ifconfig eth0'. This tried to run 'modprobe -s -k eth0', which failed
> since modprobe is one of the goodies I don't have yet. My question is, why do
> I need modprobe to configure the eth0 interface? Since the kernel gets
> a whole floppy to itself, I've compiled all the drivers (including the NIC
> driver) into the kernel. No modules. Is there some other way to
> associate eth0 with my NIC driver (3c59x.c) ?
> -chris
>
Would it be possible to send this info via lilo? Don't know the answer
myself, just a thought.
kent
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