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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Pijus Virketis wrote: > I am a complete ab initio Linux user and I was hoping someone here > would help me out a bit. When I was installing my RedHat 6.0, the > program did not recognise my 3Com Ethernet card and I did not know the > relevant I/O and IRQ. Now I do, but I can't find the place where I can > enter this data. OK, there are two ways to specify this information, depending on wether you have the card built into the kernel, or if you have it loaded as a module. For a kernel, it's easy: just put a line of: append = "unitname=parameters unitname=paramaters" into your /etc/lilo.conf for each linux kernel. For instance, I used to have a line of: append = "ncr53c406a=0x330,11 ide0=cmd640_vlb" in my lilo.conf, which specified that my SCSI controller was at base address 0x330 and IRQ 11, whereas I wasn't sure if I had a buggy cmd640 ide controller on my VLB motherboard, so I threw that in anyway. As for the second method (the module kind of network card driver), I'm a lot more fuzzy there. (Modules just seem to work for me - I've never needed to specify things.) I think that you can specify things on the command line when you load them (look at the insmod man page - "man insmod"), or in a configuration file (/etc/conf.modules - you might be able to glean some info out of the modprobe man page). It looks as if you can do a: # insmod de620 bnc=1 or somesuch on the command line, whereas in the conf file you can put a line resembling options NCR53c406a io=0x330 irq=11 (see above). Of course, this is just a guess. I haven't had that SCSI controller in my machine for about a year... Does anybody know modules better than I? --Mark - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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