Re: eth0 not working

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

Hello

roberto (<robcatanuto@yahoo.it>) wrote:

> well the name of the module for my ethernet card is tg3 but it is not
> a loadable module for kernel i currently have since:
> 
> #modprobe tg3
> FATAL: Module tg3 not found
> 
> even if i inserted this line
> 
> tg3
> 
> in /etc/modules and rebooted.
> So, i should recompile the kernel??

A quick search on <http://packages.debian.net> shows that only the 2.6
kernel packages have the tg3 driver. Use `uname -r` to see your kernel
version. If you currently use 2.4, install one of the 2.6 kernel image
packages.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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