Re: Network Cards
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> 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.
It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being
anything relating to eth0 anywhere under /etc/modutils.
Weird - I simply never knew this should be there. In fact, come to
think of it, on all the boxes I've set up I've never put eth0 in there
and I've never had a problem.
Any ideas?
Matthew
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