On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > >I was never able to get this done in the install. I completed the install > >without networking and then, after some research, placed: > > > >alias eth0 ne > >options ne io=0x300 irq=10 > > > >in the file /etc/modutils/network. Of course, after more research, I had to > >complete the rest of the network configuration manually as well. But in the > >end, it all works. > > So i load the module on install and accept the failure? > > or i don't need to install it?
I was worried about this. But the module (in my case 'ne') did show up in /lib/modules after the install. All I had to do was add it to /etc/modules and create the /etc/modutils/network entry as I indicated above. I may have had to run 'modules-update' -- I don't remember just now. The main point is you can safely complete your Debian installation and fix up your NIC config later. Dwight
