[wplug] eth0 missing

Evan DiBiase evand at wplug.org
Sat Apr 13 18:33:38 EDT 2002


This one isn't my fault! James pointed out again, that the driver is 
*really* 3c59x, although I'd like to point out:

<jo2y-home> it is called 5c59x I think.
<jo2y-home> it works for the 3c5xx and 3c9xx

;-)

Anyway, replace below accordingly.

-Evan

On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 06:26  PM, Evan DiBiase wrote:

> My mistake. As James pointed out to me in IRC, the real name of the 
> driver you want is 5c59x, not "vortex" hence:
>
>> Do you get any errors if you run "modprobe vortex" as root? If not, 
>> the module most likely loaded successfully. At this point, you then 
>> want to add a line with the module name "vortex" to /etc/modules (so 
>> that it loads at boot time).
>
> should read:
>
> Do you get any errors if you run "modprobe 5c59x" as root? If not ... 
> you then wan tto add a line with the module name "5c59x" to 
> /etc/modules (so that it loads at boot time).
>
> Sorry for any confusion.
>
> -Evan
>
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