Re: bug with rtl8139

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>]

Hi Henkka
not quite, the issue appears not directly to be with my NIC.

the problem is that install_rtlinux_base checks whether modules are 
loaded, and loads them if not.

however the 'rtl' part of rtl8139 confuses the script. It sees 
rtl8139 and thinks: hey, rtl is there, don't bother loading it.

which breaks the rest of emc.    

But my NIC keeps working fine :)  The network comes up early. The 
alias eth0 rtl8139    *is* already there.

why does emc not use modprobe?  Modules.dep has the needed
dependencies, but insmod does not use that as far as I understand.

regards, john


On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:49:28AM -0400, Henry Palonen wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> You could also handle this like any other linux-module, eg.
> you could just add
> 
> alias eth0 rtl8139
> 
> to your /etc/conf.modules (or /etc/modules.conf in some newer systems)
> and run "depmod -a" command. That should enable automatic
> module-loading for your NIC during boot-time.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Henkka
> 
> * John Sheahan (jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au) [25.09.2001 04:24]:
> > ...
> > Turned out that the different NIC (rtl8139) broke the emc 
> > module loading startup script    install_rtlinux_base 
> > ...
> > if ! /sbin/lsmod | grep -v rtl_ | grep -v rtl8139 | grep rtl 1>/dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then
> > ...
>