On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:46:33PM -0600, Patwardhan, Aniruddha wrote: > Hi Manish, > > Most likely this is because u not compiles 8139 driver as a module while > compiling the kernel. > This is a common mistake. No need to compile the kernel again for that > > What you can do is go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net search for 8139 driver > mostly it is 8139too.c > compile it as a module > gcc - c -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ 8139too.c -I /usr/src/linux/include That's what make modules make modules_install is for. Kernel stuff may compile wrong without various options passed to gcc by the build system. > Now insert this module using insmod. > Now start the network There should be a file (on debian it's named /etc/modules, but may be different on RH) where you name modules and they are loaded by some init script. Look at the scripts. Pre-compiled kernels include all possible drivers as modules and the ones to use are choosed run-time by init scripts. You could also set an alias in /etc/modules.conf, so the module would be autoloaded by kernel when ifconfig is first invoked (IIRC the statement is: alias eth0 8139too). > [root@localhost init.d]# ./network start > > To avoid manually inserting this driver every time, now place it in rc > script to automate it As I mentioned above, there really should be generic script to do it. You just need to tell it, which modules must be loaded. > > i am using RH linux 7.1 ..and i had replaced kernel from 2.4.2 to > > 2.4.5...everything works fine except lan card..when i boots up my system i > > am getting error: > > > > Bringing up interface lo [ OK ] > > Bringing up interface eth0 Delaying eth0 initialization. > > [ FAILED ] Have you looked at the script (/etc/rc/init.d/network), why it prints the "Delaying eth0 initialization" message? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
