Re: newbee question

Hi Alex,

> Sorry, no Kudzu either. I need to do all by hand ...
> Alex
>
> On 4 Mar 2003 at 16:39, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
>
>> Question ... How do I install it's drivers manually? There is no
>> Linuxconf or Setup on this machine and I can not install them. A PURE
>> Linux solution is needed here.
>>
>> Have you tried KUDZU?
>>
>> Assuming you are on level 5
>> i.e. chkconfig --level 5 kudzu on
>> and then boot the box.
>>
>> Those are the simplest instructions although not the most elegant.

It's a common problem... what happens is basically init finds the first
match for the module and then happily moves on, thinking it's done it's
job. I'm assuming that you logically put in a second NIC that's the same
as the first one because you know it works...

Check dmesg. See if the NIC is recognized, and if so,ignore the above. :)
If it's not, then try a simple
      modprobe \*
and check dmesg again. If it's not there, you have some googling to do to
make sure you can specify the correct module, and if you need to set
parameters. If no parameters are needed, then
     modprobe <module>
but if paramters are needed, then
     insmod <module> <parm1> <parm2> (etc.)

Once you get the correct information, try setting it in /etc/modules.conf
and reboot. If that doesn't stick, you may want to set the module in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local so it comes up on boot. Don't forget to set the
ifconfig parameters either in rc.local or (better) in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx.

HTH

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Keith Mastin
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