Hi,
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 18:18 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 16:08 schrieb Daniel Bauer:
In SUSE 10 unload the tulip driver and then load the dmfe first.
This sounds like a driver issue. Looking at the docs this does not
appear to be a tulip family driver. If you have the kernel sources
installed look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking for more
information. On the SuSE 9.x box show the results of lsmod | grep
tulip.
Ok, thanks! This works so far, it seems that Suse10 recognises the
Davicom card wrongly. I typed:
rmmod tulip
modprobe dmfe
ifconfig eth0 up
Then ping (and internet access) works. So, I went to
Yast/network devices/network card
and changed the "hardware details" of the card:
- gave it a new name "Davicom"
- deleted the entry for the driver "tulip" and entered "dmfe" instead
After finishing Yast, network connection was gone again and lsmod
showed "tulip" again. Went to Yast again to check if it has saved my
entries - it did. I rebooted, but same result: module "tulip" loaded
as unused, "dmfe" not in the list. With rmmod/modprobe/ifconfig as
above I can make the network running again.
So, my only problem - for the moment ;-) is:
how can I make the change definitive, so that "dmfe" will be loaded
at boot and "tulip" not?
Even if it is not nice, you could write the rmmod and modprobe command
to /etc/init.d/boot.local. Maybe the network script is working correct
then. (If not, write a small initscript based on /etc/init.d/skeleton
which calls the commands and add Required-Start: network to ensure it
is run late enough.)
Oh, and please make an entry in bugzilla - this sounds like a bug.
Perhaps a change in /etc/modprob.conf or what ever the file is in SUSE
10. Isn't this where some modules are set to load for certain devices?
Probably the most easiest way is to change /etc/sysconfig/kernel:
MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="dmfe"
This gets loaded at first, before all other non-initrd modules.
If you have more than one entry there, the load sequence is either
unpredicted or latest first (I'm only sure that it is not left to right).
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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