From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1ytl-0005YZ-QL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 04:06:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7844v7t007164; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 04:04:57 GMT Received: from serv.stabilityhost.com (serv.stabilityhost.com [207.44.160.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7840PiZ012497 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 04:00:25 GMT Received: (qmail 25205 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2005 23:00:40 -0500 Received: from pool-71-99-168-40.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net (HELO hobbes.mars.lan) (71.99.168.40) by serv.stabilityhost.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 2005 23:00:39 -0500 Received: by hobbes.mars.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 21CD21256AB; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 23:58:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 23:58:57 -0400 From: Paul M Foster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc. Message-ID: <20050808035856.GV792@quillandmouse.com> References: <20050807221741.GT792@quillandmouse.com> <1123454349.16905.148.camel@rattus.localdomain> <20050808021428.GU792@quillandmouse.com> <1123468916.7948.11.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1123468916.7948.11.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Archives-Salt: 39043177-3a88-4d44-bf8b-e3b5565cad79 X-Archives-Hash: f8f97dff94370613a74444070991ad01 On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:41:56AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both > running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working > so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without > the irq option, even if the card uses "auto". This brings up another > memory - some cards refuse to work under auto, or plugnplay setting > (planet I think in my case), I had to force a fixed IRQ with a jumper > (nominally the same as the auto seemed to be). > Be that as it may, if you check my original post, you'll see that (after hacking the config files manually) I was able to run modprobe ne io=0x300 and the module would load, without specifying the IRQ setting. Aside from that, the original problem wasn't that I couldn't load the module. I could, but only _if_ I hacked the config files manually, in a way you weren't supposed to do. So the original question was how to hack them _correctly_ to make the load occur _automatically_. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list