Re: [SLE] Loading module for network card - 3c509
From: Fergus Wilde (fwilde_at_chethams.org.uk)
Date: 05/14/04
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:00:24 +0100
On Friday 14 May 2004 14:21, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 14 May 2004 09:09 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> > On Friday 14 May 2004 14:01, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > On Friday 14 May 2004 08:43 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> > > > I did check to see if the module was loaded first, in fact - it
> > > > wasn't. The problem is undoubtedly a module - loading one. I'm sure
> > > > I will get it sorted out - however I'm equally sure a Linux neophyte
> > > > would have scant chance, and it does seem a particular shame that the
> > > > installer has blown this when so many versions of SuSE handled it
> > > > without problems.
> > >
> > > Not 'the' module. I think he was referring to looking for a module
> > > that might have been loaded for eth0 (but the wrong module) You'd
> > > have to get rid of that module before loading the correct one.
> >
> > Thanks Bruce, I should have said 'I did check to see if any eth0 module
> > was loaded first' - no, there isn't.
>
> I wonder if it is an IRQ problem. I notice in my /etc/modprobe.conf that
> for the 3c509 it calls for irq=10. Wonder if you could add that when
> doing the modprobe.
Could be - though there have been no changes in the hardware since SuSE 6.2,
and from there to 9.0 it installed OK, so it's hard to see why an irq issue
would arise now ... the module loads, interestingly, if you start yast and
then click on 'network devices' ...
Thanks for the thought.
>
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