On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:07:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > D.U. said: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > > modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I > > give it the IRQ and IO port on the commandline, but it locks up dead when > > I do an "ifup eth0". I have to hit reset to reboot, if I hit > > capslock or numlock, the lights on the keyboard do not change. > > > looks like you found the problem then :) > > I'm not sure if the stock 2.4.x kernel has it but there is another > module for the eepro called the e100 module which is from intel. I think > it is included in the 2.4.x tree, try it out 'modprobe e100'. another > thing may be to try to compile another version of the driver, the official > site for the eepro driver is here: > http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html > > theres also mailing list and stuff there too, I reccomend posting > there, I used to be on the list, donald becker is quite helpful to > posters. Also you can try to grab the diagnostics program and run it > on your card as well. > > all my systems run 2.2.19.. > > nate > The page you point to is only for PCI cards, mine is a ISA intel pro10. Thanks for the tip, but I don't think the problem is specific to the NIC module. I'll wait a bit before I bother them.
At boot up some basic modules like unix.o, etc should be loaded but they are not. There is a full set of modules for each kerenel in /lib/modules/ so I'm not sure what is going on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
