Re: Network Cards

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

Matthew Sackman(matthew@sackman.co.uk) is reported to have said:
> Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/
> 
> I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces,
> and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases?
> If so why?
> 

Only if you compiled the NIC driver as a module.  You probably have it
compiled into the kernel.  I (we) assumed he had 'not' compiled it
into the kernel.  My only excuse for that is that is how I do it and
he didn't say which method he used.  :-(  I assumed again, darn it.
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