[Peeweelinux] Configuring the Ethernet port

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Is the network card you're trying to get to work ISA or PCI? If it is ISA 
or if the drivers requires parameters, they will have to be passed to the 
kernel at boot. If it's a loadable mdule the paramters are passed to the 
driver when the module is loaded.

If you're building modules, you have to load the module using modprobe or 
insmod. I believe the initscrips include support for /etc/rc.module which 
would be the place for all your insmod statement if you're using kernel 
modules.

Adi

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Shawn Perkins wrote:

> Adi,
> I selected the driver when I built the kernel. It was selected as an
> asterisk and not an M. I don't know a lot about the loadable modules, is
> there an additional step I would need to take?
> -Shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peeweelinux-admin@adis.on.ca [mailto:peeweelinux-admin@adis.on.ca]
> On Behalf Of Adi Linden
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:05 AM
> To: peeweelinux@adis.on.ca
> Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] Configuring the Ethernet port
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Did you include the network driver as module? If so, are you loading the
> 
> module before configuring IP?
> 
> Adi
> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Shawn Perkins wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > My name is Shawn Perkins and I seem to be having problems with my
> > Ethernet port on my advantech single board computer. Using pwlconfig,
> I
> > rebuilt the kernel with the appropriate Ethernet driver, configured
> the
> > system, and downloaded the whole ball of wax to my flash card. The
> > system boots up and when I try to configure eth0 (ifconfig eth0
> > 192.168.1.1) I get a message saying no such device. I do notice when
> the
> > kernel is booting it configures a device called 'brg0' this can be
> > configured with an IP, but does not seem to work for passing traffic.
> > Does anyone have some ideas, it's probably something very simple I'm
> > overlooking. I believe the onboard Ethernet chip is made by Realtek.
> >  
> > Also, on to a different topic, has anyone been able to get the Linksys
> > USB 100M to work with PeeWee? It's a USB Ethernet adapter, and I
> believe
> > it's using the Pegasus chipset. Once I get the onboard Ethernet to
> work,
> > I'm going to attempt to get this guy up and running. Wish me luck :-)
> >  
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Shawn
> > 
> 
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