Re: Kernel 2.6

[Isaac To <kkto@csis.hku.hk>]

>>>>> "Sridhar" == Sridhar M A <mas@uomphysics.net> writes:

    Sridhar> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:33:51AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
    >>  echo "8139too" >> /etc/modules
    >> 
    Sridhar> That is the solution similar to what I have for my cd-writer
    Sridhar> (ide-scsi).  But I am curious to know why it fails under 2.6
    Sridhar> and works under 2.4.x.  Should eth0 be `defined' anywhere for
    Sridhar> the kernel to know about it?

The kernel don't know about it.  It will simply modprobe eth0 when you use
it.  So if you have "alias eth0 8139too" in your /etc/modules.conf (or
/etc/modprobe.conf for new kernels), it will load it automatically.

Regards,
Isaac.