Re: NIC is working, but how?

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Mario Flores (<marioflores@verizon.net>) wrote:

> I just installed debian woody in a dell pc (400 Mhz, 128 megs, and a
> 3com NIC: 3c905B 100BaseTX). During the installation of debian, the
> installation of any network card module failed. All network
> configuration was wrong and kept getting the "neighbour table
> overflow" message. After installation, I manually configured the
> /etc/netwrok/interfaces to have:
> 
> auto lo
> auto eth0
> 
> iface lo inet loopback
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> I rebooted the system expecting the eht0 not to work but at least fix
> the loopback interface and to my surprise eth0 was working as well! I
> could not find which module the kernel is using for eth0 anywhere. Is
> it possible that it is not using any module?

It is possible that the driver is compiled into the installation kernel.
In that case the card is autodetected. You can check the config file
in /boot. The option for your driver either is set to "M" (module) or
"Y" (compiled into the kernel).

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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