On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:39:21PM +0200, Fredrik Jonsson wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to all who responded to my first (very incomplete) question! > > I have now disabled PnP on the card and set IRQ to 10 and io to 300. IRQ > 10 is set to ISA (not Pnp) in Bios. Donald Beckers el3-diag report the > card to be OK, se below. > > What I was trying to do was to compile the 3c509 driver hard into the > kernel with "modconf" and was geting only errors. Many suggested to load > the driver as a module insteed so I have put the line "alias eth0 3c509" > in to the file "conf.modules" via update-modules command. But I still get: > > On Boot > eth0 unknown interface > > When I check modprobe > > # This file was generated by: modprobe -c (2.1.121) > [Deletia] > # Aliases > alias eth0 3c509 > alias eth0 off > [Deletia] > > The first line about 3c509 looks like mine but where does the "off" > command come from? Check around /etc/modutils. update-modules looks at all of the files there and combines them into conf.modules. A problem I've had in the past is that your editor will make backup files ending in ~ that inadvertantly get added into conf.modules.
> After running insmod "3c509", modprobe "3c509", ifconfig ... and route > ... everything looks fine, se below, but I can't get a connection/ping > other computers on my local network. The settings in ifconfig and route > disappears after a reboot, I presume this is not right. > Au contrair. On boot-time, all ethernet devices are configured by /etc/init.d/network. Change the ifconfig lines there to automatically setup your network card. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
