Re: NIC is working, but how?
> 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? The output for lsmod is:
>
> Module Size Used by
> parport_pc 7276 1 (autoclean)
> lp 4580 0 (unused)
> parport 6676 1 [parport_pc lp]
> af_packet 6136 1
Quite possibly the stock kernel you are using has the driver compiled
into the kernel and not as later-loadable module.
Look in /boot/config-<your-kernel-version> and look for text like
3COM or 3C9. On my kernel I have:
dione$ grep -i 3c /boot/config-2.*
....
/boot/config-2.4.16:CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
...
dione$
Note the 'y', meaning 'compiled into the kernel'. I suspect you
will have the same.
('m' would mean it is a module which then gets modprobe'd in by one
of the init.d scripts.)
Alexis
http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/
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