Re: Compiling 3c90x driver on Red Hat Linux 9

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Prashant Mahajan wrote:

> I did not know RH 9 provides the 3c90x driver.

It does not. It provides the 3c59x driver. The 3c90x driver is written by 
3Com, but it's not distributed with the kernel. Some distributions 
(including Red Hat Linux) have included it in the past.

> Dec 16 05:59:41 localhost ifup: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file 
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-8BOOT/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

The *BOOT kernel is not supposed to be used on a normal system. It's a 
minimal kernel that is used only for installation and for very small 
systems that are otherwise not capable to run the normal kernel. So 
something is wrong with the kernel and/or modutils installation. You can 
try to load the module first by using "insmod 3c59x" and then restarting 
the network, but this is not guaranteed to work. The best solution is to 
fix the installation - please write to some Red Hat Linux related mailing 
list.

> Is there a way to remove the hardware from what RH 9 has detected so
> that I can go through the 'New hardware detection' routine again ?

"kudzu" is responsible for hardware detection at boot. But without working 
modules, even if it detects it again, you won't be able to activate it.

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