On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Barrett Cervenka wrote:
> I didn't use the RPMs - I just downloaded the source from www.kernel.org and
> built it. But your suggestion worked. I figured out what modules were needed
> and added them into my kernel.
>
> Here's my next question though: When I booted with the new kernel, my eth0
> didn't come up properly. When I manually enter:
> $ insmod 8390
> $ insmod ne2k-pci
>
> everything is fine so it seems like something isn't happening correctly at
> boot time. Does anyone know what boot scripts I should check out? What
> script decides what network modules to load into the kernel?
>
In /etc/conf.modules, you need a line:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
or
alias eth0 8390
depending on what your network card is.
> Finally, can someone tell me what "make install" does when building the
> kernel?
>
make -n install will show you the commands it would run...
Mikkel
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