Fwd: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading
From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: fun with tulip not autoloading
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.
Well, i was lying slightly. The driver I had to do this for was
natsemi, and the reason I did it was that placing
natsemi
in /etc/modules didn't work. Rather than spending another couple of
hours of my time and my boss's money working out how to do it cleanly,
I simply applied the ugly hack. I could of course put a conditional
around it for when the module is already loaded, and I probably will
one day unless I can magically work out how to autoload the thing in
the mean time without applying any effort...
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