Re: NE2000 Module Problem

Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de)
9 Sep 1996 19:46:21 GMT


Andrew E. Mileski (aem@aem.ott.hookup.net) wrote:

: After doing some head banging I realize the problem: the NE2000 driver
: is dumb-as-a-post when it comes to autoprobing :-(

ne.c has its well-sorted list of addresses to probe at, and if you use
it as a "non-module", it will find the PCI cards, too.

: The RealTek RTK8029 cards are _PCI_ so they must be probed, and hence
: the current driver cannot be used as a module. This should be documented.

This is wrong; due to a decision of the author, ne.c will not auto-probe
for cards if used as a module. But you can always say something like
insmod ne.c io=0x6000
and the module will find your PCI card.

Cheers -e

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