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Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers



Thus spake Xeno Campanoli:
> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> > 
> > I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and
> > though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones
> > don't.
> > I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's
> > because
> > their ISA, but the 3c59x comes up fine with the modules kernel, and I
> > can bring up the ne2000 with insmod ne on that one too, but for some
> > reason it won't come up at boot as a module on that module kernel.
> 
> My apologies again.  It turns out the 3c59x is being recognized, but it
> doesn't provide an eth2 symbol in the dmesg.  Is this a bug, by the way?
> 
> However, I'm still having a hard time remembering what the file is where
> I need to specify my IRQ and ADDR for the ne device driver.  I remember
> the ne in particular had a hard time getting recognized unless you
> specified the dang address and interrupt specifically.  Sorry, I'm
> looking in the debian kernel doc, but it's not jumping out at me.
You can add the modules you want to bring up, along with any arguments
/etc/modules.
HTH,
Steve
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