On Friday 14 May 2004 15:16, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Friday 14 May 2004 10:00 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
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' ...
What I was (trying to) say was that since you are loading it manually, you may not be providing the same information or options as the system would had it picked up the device at install. Hard to say why it didn't on the install; that's a pretty common nic.
I'm with you, Bruce, and thanks - I'm not coming over clearly, I fear, I mean it loads alright when you open the section in Yast, without passing any additional info to the module. I don't know whether locking the machine by doing modprobe 3c509 was a one-off or not ... experiment would appear unwise, in that I don't fancy locking it up again. You don't happen to know the line I need to put in /etc/modprobe.conf, I suppose? Cheers, thanks for taking so much trouble, Fergus
Thanks for the thought.
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