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 1E1yNQ-0001Ap-9F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:32:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j783VUmn029309; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 03:31:30 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j783Rpqn006951 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 03:27:52 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09BB11ADF1 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:26:46 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:28:04 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc. In-Reply-To: <1123468916.7948.11.camel@localhost> References: <20050808021428.GU792@quillandmouse.com> <1123468916.7948.11.camel@localhost> Message-Id: <20050808151955.0D81.NICK@rout.co.nz> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 0ac4905c-128b-4b5d-b92c-439a925a593f X-Archives-Hash: d1b0e84ab24066bd6448990a7f16abc3 On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:41:56 +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! actually if you read the original post the card IS working, the original question was asking about how a certain setting got set, as below: > 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: [snip] > 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? And the answer I suspect may be running a script called "generate-modprobe.conf" which I have never heard of. Unless something has changed the script is "update-modules" on gentoo. generate-modprobe.conf seems to come from module-init-tools and update-modules from baselayout. I suspect that the former is generic and the latter specific to gentoo. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list