On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Darrell May wrote:
> I am performing a new e-smith 4.1.1 install on a new system.
> The motherboard is a brand-new AOpen MX3S with onboard Intel nic.
>
> The console auto selects the network card as an Intel Etherpro100
> however after the install finishes the eepro100 module fails to load.
>
> I've done some trial and error investigating and find that I need to
> load the e100 module
We can only point the finger at RedHat - they supply the PCI Id to driver
mapping table :-)
> however there does not appear to be a choice
> to do this in the console. The e100 module exists is located at
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/e100.0
>
> If I manually load e100 with the following commands everything
> appears to work:
>
> modprobe e100
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
>
> Next, not knowing any better I decided to do the following:
>
> cd /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net
> mv /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/eepro100.o eepro100.o.org
> cp /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/e100.o eepro100.o
>
> This works but I'm sure there must be a better way. Can anyone
> point me to a better, more preferred, e-smith compatible solution?
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set EthernetDriver1 e100
# or /sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 e100
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
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