Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kieren Diment wrote:

> From: Ray <tech13@powerweb.net>
> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
> Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading
>
> i'm using
> 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21)
> and for some reason the tulip module that runs it wont load by default.
>
> I came up with a really ugly hack for this:
>
> Just add the line:
>
> modprobe tulip 
>
> near the top of /etc/init.d/networking 
>
> (before any conditional statements).
>
>  
You're right; that is ugly.

I'd suggest you take the line out of /etc/init.d/networking, and instead 
add the single line

   tulip

to /etc/modules.

Kent