On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: | > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ | > > | > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces, | > > and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases? | > > If so why? | > > | > | > Only if you compiled the NIC driver as a module. You probably have it | > compiled into the kernel. I (we) assumed he had 'not' compiled it | > into the kernel. My only excuse for that is that is how I do it and | > he didn't say which method he used. :-( I assumed again, darn it.
Yeah, I figured he had a pre-packaged kernel which includes everything as modules so as to minimize the _need_ for recompiling. | It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being | anything relating to eth0 anywhere under /etc/modutils. | | Weird - I simply never knew this should be there. In fact, come to | think of it, on all the boxes I've set up I've never put eth0 in there | and I've never had a problem. | | Any ideas? Maybe the kernel is better at identifying the module automagically? If you run 'lsmod' does it show the natsemi module? -D
