Good question. I may have something wrong when trying to install the module manually, since putting in in /lib/modules/... and running depmod didn't work under reboot, so I just assumed that it was required by the kernel before / was mounted.
Rony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Baruch Siach Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Rami Rosen'; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: NIC woes with Debian & MSI MS-7507 Hi Rony, On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:07:19PM +0300, ronys wrote: > Hi Rami, > > Thanks - getting the latest driver from the vendor fixed the problem. > The vendor's tarball builds a module outside the source tree, and works fine > with rmmod/insmod. Getting it to build as part of the kernel source tree so > that initrd will pick it up was a bit of a hassle, but that's probably my > lack of experience. All's well that ends well, though. Why do you need those NIC drivers in initrd? Is this driver needed for the initial boot phase? baruch -- ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
