modutils 2.1.85 & ethernet card

David Madore (madore@clipper.ens.fr)
Sun, 8 Mar 1998 22:18:52 +0100 (MET)

I'm running kernel 2.1.89, which works fine, and I wanted to switch
from modutils 2.1.71 to 2.1.85. That, however, was a failure: modprobe
(and consequently kerneld) fails to load the ``ne'' module (my ethernet
card is an ne2000 compatible). insmod 8390 followed by insmod ne works
fine but modprobe ne does not do anything: no error message, no warning,
no log, no nothing. As if ne had been aliased to off. My /etc/conf.modules
is as follows:

pleiades root /etc # cat conf.modules
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
options ne io=0x9200 irq=11
options aha152x aha152x=0x340,12,7,1,1
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
options sound dma_buffsize=65536 trace_init=1
options adlib_card io=0x388
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=-1 dma=-1
options lp parport=0
alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
alias eth0 ne

modutils 2.1.71 work fine. The output of modutils -c (which I can post
if it seems necessary) is exactly the same with both versions. It contains
the line "alias eth0 ne" and later on the line "alias eth0 off" (what is
the meaning of that one?)

So, is it a bug or a feature which I didn't understand?

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