From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "C.Newport" Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:25:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Compiling sunlance as a module Message-Id: <200403310125.25888.crn@netunix.com> List-Id: References: <20040330234412.GB5439@artsapartment.org> In-Reply-To: <20040330234412.GB5439@artsapartment.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:44 am, Art Haas wrote: > Hi. > > I'm still fiddling around with my configuration for my SS20, and I found > that compiling the sunlance.c file as a module has problems. [snip] > I seek enlightenment from the list. All supported 32bit sparc machines come with a sunlance NIC, so why would you want this as a module ?. You are always going to need it. There is a slightly more obscure issue here - Not all Sun machines have a working CD drive so the ability to boot from the network for both installations and troubleshooting is highly desireable. Booting from a device which needs a module is not a good idea.