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.

Thanks for your reply.

You pointed out correctly what was going wrong. I was booting from CD using 
boot: prompt as 'vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2' I guess that loads the minimal 
kernel only. I did not create boot disk while installing RH 9. Now I ran the 
upgrade option and in the end just created a bootable floppy. When I boot  
from floppy as 'vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2', everything is fine. I can connect 
to internet, which is what I was looking for. It was pain switching between 
Windows and Linux on my dual boot machine just to browse the internet.

Thanks again.

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