Hi there,
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed Mandrake 7.2 a couple of weeks ago, and was really
> excited to finally be using Linux.
> But when the boot up went through, a couple of errors came up,
> which are that modprobe can't find the eth01 module or the snd-crd-
> trident module, which means i can't network or have any sound!
> My system is a K6-3 450Mhz, 8.4Gb HDD, Trident Chip sound
> card (no idea who made it), clone network card (no idea either).
> I tried using drakconf to choose a diferent module, but modprobe
> reported that it couldn't find them either.
> What can I do?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
As someone else pointed out, you can have some luck by hacking with
modules.conf, but first check something more straightforward. Go into your
BIOS (usually "Del" when first booting up) and see if there's a
"Plug-n-play operating system" setting in there - if so, try changing it
to "No". I've got two network cards in this machine, and with that setting
set to "No", the installer finds them no trouble - without it, it doesn't
find either of them.
Hope it helps,
Geoff
