From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_REJECT, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com [171.71.163.54]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09C5AC618 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:49:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mira-sjc5-3.cisco.com (IDENT:mirapoint@mira-sjc5-3.cisco.com [171.71.163.20]) by sj-msg-core-4.cisco.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g97Hnqot018082 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cisco.com (dhcp-128-107-18.cisco.com [128.107.129.18]) by mira-sjc5-3.cisco.com (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.66-GA) with ESMTP id AAF42733; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DA1C93F.9000508@cisco.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:49:51 -0700 From: Bo Majewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Request for enhancement Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: f08bcbdc-d737-468a-866f-c14a18c986ba X-Archives-Hash: 64f8943dd3c62c6bb33abf7a5e0e9a99 I think the "Final network configuration" can benefit from adding a comment to indicate that 3c59x is a 3Com network module. It was less than obvious to me, since I never owned one. The 3c59x looked like a magic number, needed by Gentoo. Only after seeing an error message during boot sequence I realized my mistake. Documentatin should caution people to include modules they compiled. A good way of doing this would be to include some comments in the code. I have RealTek 8139 Ethernet card and for such you need to include 8139too module. Maybe something like this: Code listing 16.5: /etc/modules.autoload: # If you compiled 3Com Ethernet card as a module uncomment the following # 3c59x # If you compiled RealTek 8139 Ethernet card as a module uncomment the following # 8139too # Etc., for other cards ... Bo