I am in the process of rebuilding our beowulf system
(http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/jacek/topcat) and have to include
support for channel bonding and the epic100 SMC card. So far the
epic100.o module works fine, but I need to compile epic100.c into the
kernel. (I need a monolithic kernel to boot clients of a floppy disk and
mount / via NFS). Anyway, I put an antry in .config "CONFIG_EPIC100=y",
in drivers/net I put :
ifeq ($(CONFIG_EPIC100),y)
L_OBJS += epic100.o
endif
in the Makefile and compiled the kernel. (epic100.o did compile)
I added an entry in /etc/lilo.conf :
append="root=/dev/hda4 mem=256MB ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1
ether=0,0,eth2"
and ran lilo
"I have 2 SMC cards and 3C900 for the outside world"
When I rebooted the machine only 3C900 was detected, but I have no
problems loading the epic100 module.
Questions.
1. What did I do wrong in the kernel configuration ?
2. Is there any documentation available on how to add drivers to the
kernel ?
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Jacek Radajewski Unix Systems Administrator
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