From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Napanda. C. Pemmaiah" Subject: Confirmation! Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 18:43:54 -0700 Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3CABC1F5@webmail.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello, How are you? I am Anup Pemmaiah doing my masters in computer science at Utah State University -USA. I have a linux box running Red Hat 7.2 (kernel version 2.4). My ethernet driver is 3c59x. I had two questions regarding 3c59x module installation. 1) When the system is booted the module gets installed. I was curious from where does this installation takes place. As far i learnt from the documentation, this is done because of the entry "alias eth0 3c59x" in the /etc/modules.conf file. But even if I delete this entry and reboot the system still the module gets installed. 2) I removed the module by "rmmod 3c59x" and again installed it by "insmod /lib/modules/...../net/3c59x.o". The module got installed but in the /proc/modules it shows "3c59x 0(unused)". And from /etc/rc.d/init.d if I start the network by saying "./network start" the eth0 conncetion does not come up. Is it because of some options setting to be done during insmod. I searched and tried a lot but I could not figure out the above two problems. It will be really great if you can give the solution for the above problems. I will be eagerly waiting for your reply. I am sorry for disturbing you. Have a nice day. Thank you, Anup Pemmaiah ------------------------------------------------- N.C.Pemmaiah (Anup) 620E, 700N, Apt# 2 Logan, UT-84321,USA. email: pemmaiah@cc.usu.edu, anup_pemmaiah@yahoo.com Ph: 435-512-0935(mob.), 435-752-5976 (Res.) -------------------------------------------------