On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote about, Re: recognising the ethernet card:
> At 02:02 AM 3/19/00 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> >...I would try running a
> >> current RH installation floppy on the host and seeing what it turns up in
> >> the way of information.
> >
> >Is there any way I can run the installation program or make the install
> >disks?
>
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/images/
>
> I assume you have, and know how to use, rawrite (on Windows) or dd (on
> Linux) to make floppies from images.
>
> >
> >> What I had in mind was modprobing the various HP modules (I think they
> >> autoprobe for IRQ and IOport) and seeing if any of them hit the mark.
If you use a distribution kernel from your disribution source, then you can
use this approch, if a module fails it will say;
device or resouce busy.
if it is succesfull it wil say nothing, in otherwords, no return from
modprobe means the module has fould your card.
I have said this before so the answer is in the archives.
For more information check out the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
> >How do I get the names of the modules to try and probe them? modprobe is
> >what you are talking about right? What file(s) must I edit to do this? Is
> >there any way I can send you my current kernel configuration (or learn to
> >read it and make sense of it?)
>
> Look in /lib/modules/<version>/net (replace <version> with the number of
> your kernel version).
>
> >In relation to ethernet cards, that a cable be "plugged in" to it is
> >not mandatory for linux to be able to recognise the card, right?
>
> Right.
>
> >> You have probably posted previously with the details of the crashes, but I
> >> can't find that message in my back files. You might want to address the
> >> problems here directly
> >
> >I think I will start a separate thread for that or must I continue in
> >this?
>
> A separate thread would be better, in my opinion.
>
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