RE: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: W.Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 03:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc. Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels

[gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread Paul M Foster
I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in my modprobe.conf: alias ne off install eth0 /bin/true If I change the one line to: alias eth0 ne and add this line: options ne io=0x330 and remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread William Kenworthy
You will also need the irq (irq=5) - may have to pull the card and check the jumpers, who load doze and see if it finds it if dual booted. This link gives some more info: http://clarkconnect.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISA_Network_Cards BillK On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:17 -0400, Paul M Foster

Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:39:09AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: You will also need the irq (irq=5) - may have to pull the card and check the jumpers, who load doze and see if it finds it if dual booted. This link gives some more info:

Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without the irq option, even if the card uses auto. This brings up another memory - some cards

Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:41:56 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! actually if you read the original post the card IS working, the original

Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:41:56AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without the irq option, even if