On Saturday 13 April 2002 10 22:55 pm, Kurt Wall's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: > Scribbling feverishly on April 13, Tom Wilson managed to emit: > > Hi all, > > > > I got a box running Slackware 8 that I am gonna use to make a > > firewall and during a recompile of the kernel, I made the support > > for my NE2000 clone ISA ethernet cards part of the kernel instead > > of a module by mistake and didn't realize until I was done that I > > did it. > > Doh!
Yes... deep doh. :-) > > > During start up, it finds the card and puts it a a DMA of 0x300 but > > errors out on IRQ 5 with an error 22. Is there a way to pass > > different parameters to the drivers similar to the way of doing a > > modprobe and adding the parameters to the end? I looked for a > > config file to add different parameters (and configure the 2nd > > card) in all the usual spots but came up empty. > > Hmm. There used to be. Wouldn't it be easier to use the modules > though? Yeah but I was trying to get out of recompiling again. Just time consuming on this old beater. > > > Also as an aside, when running pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf, the > > systems hangs and requires a hard reboot. The only cards in this > > box are the 2 NICS. Is this because the support is compiled in > > instead of modularized? > > I wouldn't think so. But, see the (rather old) FAQ at > http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/isapnpfaq.txt. On my way there now.... Thanks Kurt. > > Kurt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
