People, I'm having a bit of a problem with a boxes. I would like to upgrade its network card from 10mb to 100mb. .... i put in the new cards and boot up. The system boots fine but gives errors against the network card driver load as of course the card has changed ... i edit conf.modules so that the alias points at the new driver module and the line in rc.config which had the module name in as well (right at the top i think it has something to do with loading modules v. early in the boot sequence....) .... when i reboot it still fails to come up properly appearing to load the old module still....? huh? ystem is a basic Suse 6.3 install and the network cards in question are cheapo realtek 8139 chipset ones. Also after its booted i can do a modprobe rtl8139 and the module will load (and gives a message in /var/log/messages indicating its found the card) but still wont let me start networking up (/sbin/init.d/network start). Has any one got a card with this chipset who can give any pointers? ============================================================= Tim Hempstead, tim@sevigny.demon.co.uk "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea-cosy, dosn't try it on" - Billy Connelly http://www.sevigny.demon.co.uk/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Tim Hempstead wrote:
People,
I'm having a bit of a problem with a boxes. I would like to upgrade its network card from 10mb to 100mb. .... i put in the new cards and boot up. The system boots fine but gives errors against the network card driver load as of course the card has changed ... i edit conf.modules so that the alias points at the new driver module and the line in rc.config which had the module name in as well (right at the top i think it has something to do with loading modules v. early in the boot sequence....) .... when i reboot it still fails to come up properly appearing to load the old module still....? huh?
Maybe you need to do a mk.initrd? To make a new initrd for lilo to use. You probably should run lilo once after mk.initrd, just to be sure. mk.initrd reads the rc.config file and builds a new ram disk image using the initrd modules specified in rc.config Another alternative is to drop initrd out of lilo.conf and rebuild a kernel with your new module built in. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Zentara, that did it, I ran the mk_initrd program and then lilo as suggested ... rebooted and it loaded the correct driver! (card still didnt work as it wasnt being allocated an irq but some fiddling in the bios fixed that!) great! ....thanks all! Tim
Tim Hempstead wrote:
People,
I'm having a bit of a problem with a boxes. I would like to upgrade its network card from 10mb to 100mb. .... i put in the new cards and boot up. The system boots fine but gives errors against the network card driver load as of course the card has changed ... i edit conf.modules so that the alias points at the new driver module and the line in rc.config which had the module name in as well (right at the top i think it has something to do with loading modules v. early in the boot sequence....) .... when i reboot it still fails to come up properly appearing to load the old module still....? huh?
Maybe you need to do a mk.initrd? To make a new initrd for lilo to use. You probably should run lilo once after mk.initrd, just to be sure. mk.initrd reads the rc.config file and builds a new ram disk image using the initrd modules specified in rc.config
Another alternative is to drop initrd out of lilo.conf and rebuild a kernel with your new module built in.
============================================================= Tim Hempstead, tim@sevigny.demon.co.uk "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea-cosy, dosn't try it on" - Billy Connelly http://www.sevigny.demon.co.uk/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
zentara wrote:
Tim Hempstead wrote:
People,
I'm having a bit of a problem with a boxes. I would like to upgrade its network card from 10mb to 100mb. .... i put in the new cards and boot up. The system boots fine but gives errors against the network card driver load as of course the card has changed ... i edit conf.modules so that the alias points at the new driver module and the line in rc.config which had the module name in as well (right at the top i think it has something to do with loading modules v. early in the boot sequence....) .... when i reboot it still fails to come up properly appearing to load the old module still....? huh?
Maybe you need to do a mk.initrd? To make a new initrd for lilo to use. You probably should run lilo once after mk.initrd, just to be sure. mk.initrd reads the rc.config file and builds a new ram disk image using the initrd modules specified in rc.config
Another alternative is to drop initrd out of lilo.conf and rebuild a kernel with your new module built in.
excerpt from my litte "found in suse-linux-e" notebook: the script / command to call is "mk_initrd" run as root, the relevant variable in rc.config looks i.e (my case) like this: # # The module for initrd during boot # INITRD_MODULES="dc395x_trm usbcore ne2k-pci" just give the modul name to load, run mk_initrd afterwards, followed by a run of "lilo". The latter will rewrite the mapping info. without that the next reboot is into nirwana mode. ;-) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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