[Techtalk] Automatic loading of network card module after kernel upgrade

[Therese Gustafsson]

Hi everyone!

I installed Debian 3.0 yesterday. I choose the
2.2.20-idepci kernel. Then today I thought that I 
would upgrade the kernel. As I'm a newbie I didn't 
want to make it to complicated so I installed 
kernel-image-2.4.18-686 with apt-get. That was easy 
enough. Now to the problem. My network card uses the 
rtl8139 module and it worked fine with the 2.2.20 
kernel. I have understood that that module is called 
8139too in the 2.4 kernels so the automatic loading 
isn't working. I tried to find the file that tells the

kernel what network card module should be loaded, but 
I didn't find any. Does anyone know where I can put 
the new module name so I can get my network card 
automatically loaded when I start the computer? And 
is there some way I can keep the old name also, so I 
can boot the old kernel? 

Actually I have no idea if there are other things I 
should change now that I've upgraded my kernel. Are 
there? I feel that I have no idea what I've done...=)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

/Th


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