On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:29:28AM -0600, Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response, Ed. I followed the steps you suggested for
> compiling my module. I do end up with a different module than what I get
> by using my compilation steps. When I try to kickstart, I never see the
> e100 module try to get loaded and my Alt-F3 screen shows
> * found nothing
> * no appropriate device for kickstart method is available
>
> Why doesn't it automatically try to load the e100 module?
Did you update the module-info and pcitable files in the modules
directory of the initrd?
If this is a hardware driver, you need to add a line to pcitable for
the driver. anaconda compares the vendor and device codes it discovered
from scanning the PCI bus to the lines in that file. You need to figure
out the vendor and device codes for the hardware, and associate our
driver with those codes.
On a Linux box where you have a working e100 card of the same type:
1. Do 'lspci' to find your card. Record the value for the first
column for that card (looks like "XX:XX.X").
2. Do 'lspci -n' and look for the line that starts with the value you
recorded in step 1. Record the value from the last column (looks
like "AAAA:BBBB", and may have "(rev XX)" after it)
Now to update the info on the boot floppy.
3. First, unpack the floppy image
image=<name of boot image file>
mkdir /mnt/initrd
mount -o loop ${image} /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
gunzip -c initrd.img > /tmp/initrd
mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/initrd
mkdir /tmp/modules
cd /tmp/modules
zcat /mnt/initrd/modules/modules.cgz | cpio -i -d
4. Add the driver --
cp e100.o /tmp/modules/${KERN_VERS}BOOT
5. Rebuild modules.cgz:
cd /tmp/modules
find . -type f | cpio -H crc -o | gzip -9 > /tmp/modules.cgz
mv /tmp/modules.cgz /mnt/initrd/modules/modules.cgz
5. Now add a line like this to /mnt/initrd/modules/pcitable (AAAA:BBBB
comes from step 2):
0xAAAA 0xBBBB "e100" "Intel Etherblah blah"
6. Add this to /mnt/initrd/modules/module-info:
e100
eth
"Intel Etherblah blah"
7. And unmount
umount /mnt/initrd
gzip /tmp/initrd
cp /tmp/initrd.gz /mnt/floppy/initrd.img
umount /mnt/floppy
Should work.
Chris
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