[gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

[Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>]

I've got an older machine whose NIC uses the ne module. When I run 
generate-modprobe.conf, I get the following two lines (among others) in 
my modprobe.conf:

alias ne off
install eth0 /bin/true

If I change the one line to:

alias eth0 ne

and add this line:

options ne io=0x330

and remove the "install eth0 /bin/true" line, I can "modprobe ne" and 
it will load fine. My /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file contains 
(among other lines) the following:

ne
options ne io=0x300

This is all gentoo 2005.0. I'm brand new to this, so could someone 
explain to me what is causing the original two lines in the 
modprobe.conf file, and what file I can edit (and how) to make the 
modules system do what I want?

Paul

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