Hi, Ray:
Thanks for the hints. :-)
Yes, that is what I meant. Then following your suggestion:
Do you mean that if I;
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ne
that 8390.o & ne.o will be installed automagically?
:-|
I found the above by (web) searching for 'depmod' & 'modprobe'
in a document. I found the example here:
http://zhukov.pa.msu.edu/alex/noframes/network.html
:-)
Chuck
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> At 11:35 AM 8/7/00 -0400, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> ..
> >A thought to the module programmers:
> >I wonder why, if ne.o needs 8390.o, it doesn't just
> >go do it its own self!
>
> Modules don't know anything about installing other modules (if that's what
> you mean by "just go do it"). Many different NICs use the 8390 chipset, so
> pulling this functionality out into a separate module does make sense. ne.o
> is hardly unique in this approach.
>
> The "modprobe" application takes care of catching this sort of dependency.
> IT works with a list generated by the application "depmod". You should use
> it instead of "insmod".
>
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> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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