How to find an Ethernet module name in Slackware 10.0?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:52:08AM -0800, 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"
> ...

Why DHCP and an IP at the same time?  That doesn't make sense.

> 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 ? 
> 
> It seems we should not do any like that in Slackware
> 10.0. I am totally lost. 

Often the output of lspci might give a clue about the driver to use.
DFE-* cards a a pain given that a 530 and a 530+ are completely
different chips and drivers.

Lennart Sorensen
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