[Techtalk] Red Hat ethernet kernel modules question

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 02:36, Mandy Andress wrote:
> I am having some issues with a Red Hat 7.3 system when loading ethernet
> cards. The system has two onboard ports and a quad-card. The onboard
> ports use eepro100 and the quad card uses the tulip driver. When I boot
> the system, it puts the tulip driver with the on-board ports. Networking
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What do you mean here?

> does not work, of course. I unload the tulip module, the kernel then
> loads the proper eepro100 driver for the on-board ports and the tulip
> driver for the quad-card. Everything works fine. I checked the
> modules.conf file and it is correct. 

Sure? Please post for review and while you're at it, post the output of
"lspci -v" also.

> The only solution I have been able to come up with so far is to compile
> a kernel with everything statically linked. Does anyone have any other
> suggestions?

Shouldn't be necessary.

Nils
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