[plug] Need assistance changing network card.

[David Buddrige]

My conf.modules file says:

alias eth0 3c509

I had tried changing this to :

alias eth0 ne

However this did not (apparently) work.

Unfortunately, Redhat does not appear to have a /etc/modules file...

cheers

David. 8-)

Kenworthy Family wrote:

> check "/etc/conf.modules" My realtek ne2000 clone is set up as modular and the
> load is controlled by kmod via the modules.conf file.  If you want a copy of
> the settings, let me know.
>
> BillK
>
> Brad Campbell wrote:
>
> > 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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