From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:23:33 +0000
Subject: Re: netdevice problem
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At boot time, you should run something like this (this is hand
written because I do not want to wade through the other cruft
currently in our boot scripts):

	# We include "off" in the list to avoid a shell syntax error
	# in case the other modules turn out to be an empty list.
	modprobe -s -k isa-pnp
	for module in off $(isapnpmodules) $(pcimodules) ; do
		modprobe -s -k $module
	done

	( modprobe i82365 || modprobe tcic ) && cardmgr -o

	# The isapnpmodules and pcimodules loop must be run before
	# parportmodules is evaluated because they may load parallel
	# port controllers.  Perhaps this is also true of PCMCIA.
	for module in off $(parportmodules) ; do
		modprobe -s -k $module
	done

	# USB initialization occurs as a result of USB host controllers
	# being loaded (usually from pcimodules), and the host controller
	# modules generating hot plug events for the devices that are
	# already attached.  Other devices
	# This is all synchronous becuase, in the kernel, while
	# usermode_helper is not synchronous, request_module is.
	# So, we always load the modules in the same order at each
	# boot (given the same hardware).

	# We did the initialization in order of least likely to do hot
	# plugging to most likely in order to reduce the likelihood of
	# gaps in device numbering as devices are added and removed
	# (basically as a user interface issue, not for any other reason).

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