when I try to load the network card module I get an error saying that is impossible to load the module lance32 ; my machine has 2 ADM PCNET ethernet adpter, so the driver should be the right one (I used it on SuSE ppc 7.0) , I also tried to remove one of the adapters (the one on PCI BUS) but unfortunately nothing changed. I tried also the autoprobing, but it didn't load the network module.
Hmmm, just a quick guess: Most of the known drivers are allready compiled into the kernel itself. Are you really sure that you need to load a module?
Wel I think so, becouse I'm trying the ftp installation, and if I try to go on and I select "start installation" the system complains about the need of a network module
Is there something that I'm missing ? could you suggest me something ?
Some more info about the network cards might help.
well I have 2 nics, one is integrated into the rs6000 , the other is on the pci bus ; doing a lspci I get : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 10) 00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26) 00:0d.0 Class ff00: IBM MPIC interrupt controller 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875 (rev 04) 00:16.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 26) M.