[plug] Need assistance changing network card.

Brad Campbell brad at seme.com.au
Mon Jan 3 06:39:07 WST 2000


David Buddrige wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running Redhat 6 at the moment and have been troubleshooting the
> network.  To summarise where I am up to - I think that the network card
> I had in the system is faulty - it was an EtherLink III (circa 1992).
> In any case, I have removed it and installed a new network card.  The
> problem however is how to  change the configuration files such that it
> automatically loads the module for the new card.  I can load the card
> manually using modprobe - with the ne.o module, and specifying an
> address of 0x300.  However, I don't know which config file I need to
> change to get this to be automatically loaded at runtime (instead of the
> system trying to load the old module)
> 
> Can someone enlighten me?
> 
> thanks heaps
> 
> David Buddrige

/etc/modules

ne io=0x300 irq=10

well, that's how I do it on all my Debian systems.. I'm not sure about
the red cap..

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