Hello,
How are you? I am Anup Pemmaiah doing my masters in computer science at
Utah State University -USA. I have a linux box running Red Hat 7.2 (kernel
version 2.4). My ethernet driver is 3c59x. I had two questions regarding 3c59x
module installation.
1) When the system is booted the module gets installed. I was curious from
where does this installation takes place. As far i learnt from the
documentation, this is done because of the entry "alias eth0 3c59x" in the
/etc/modules.conf file. But even if I delete this entry and reboot the system
still the module gets installed.
2) I removed the module by "rmmod 3c59x" and again installed it by
"insmod /lib/modules/...../net/3c59x.o". The module got installed but in the
/proc/modules it shows "3c59x 0(unused)". And from /etc/rc.d/init.d if I
start the network by saying "./network start" the eth0 conncetion does not
come up. Is it because of some options setting to be done during insmod. I
searched and tried a lot but I could not figure out the above two problems.
It will be really great if you can give the solution for the above
problems. I will be eagerly waiting for your reply. I am sorry for disturbing
you. Have a nice day.
Thank you,
Anup Pemmaiah
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On 2002-04-02, "Napanda. C. Pemmaiah" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) When the system is booted the module gets installed. I was curious
> from where does this installation takes place. As far i learnt from the
This is going to be RedHat distribution specific; it's not a Linux kernel /
networking question. The RedHat boot scripts take care of module loading,
etc.
> 2) I removed the module by "rmmod 3c59x" and again installed
> it by "insmod /lib/modules/...../net/3c59x.o". The module got installed
> but in the /proc/modules it shows "3c59x 0(unused)". And from
> /etc/rc.d/init.d if I start the network by saying "./network start" the
This too is a RedHat-specific question. If you 'insmod 3c59x; ifconfig
eth0 1.2.3.4 ...' by hand, it should surely work. The /etc/rc.d/init.d
contents on your system are all created / set up by RedHat.
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HTH,
Hank Leininger <[email protected]>