How to find an Ethernet module name in Slackware 10.0?

Jason Shein jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 9 09:07:31 UTC 2004


On December 9, 2004 01:52 pm, Frank Peng wrote:
> Hello, gurus!
>
> When I ifconfig, I can find eth0 there. No eth1. When
> I ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 then ifconfig, I can see both
> eth0 and eth1 there. I have configured rc.inet1.conf
> for the eth1 interface as:
>
> IPADDRESS="10.0.0.1"
> MASK="255.255.255.0"
> GATEWAY=""
> DHCP="yes"
> ...
>
> My guess is that the rc.inet1 program failed to bring
> the eth1 up.
>
> When I dmesg, I can see one card is RealTek 8139. The
> other one is D-Link DFE-530 TXS FAST. When I lnsmod, I
> can seee 8139too there but no clue for the D-Link
> card.
>
> Now, please enlighten me, what is the module name for
> the D-Link card. It is already detected. Why we cannot
> find the module name? It is probed in the kernel, not
> my the rc.modules? If so, how can we do something like
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias eth1 ????
> in /etc/modules.conf ?
>
try insmod via-rhine

then restart your network

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