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If you does not need the onboard card you can disable the support in the kernel, that is correct. |
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another option to stop gentoo from loading modules is simply to move the module driver file out of |
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the module tree or to rename it there ( it like not having compiled the module ) , most probably the |
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kernel will complain not to have the module 3c59x ... but never mind for testing its ok ... |
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perhaps you should try a " grep eth0 /etc/modules.d/* " to find out if it is configured somewhere |
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if you want to use the onboard card, I think you should give another kernel-version a try (normally |
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it doesn't hurt, excert the time of compiling) ;-) |
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btw: the few times I used 3com cards I had no problems using them ... |
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Collin Starkweather wrote: |
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> This is a question about my laptop, but I figure the folks on the server |
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> list might be more in tune with the issues so please bear with me. |
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> I recently ran into a problem where my ethernet controller on my laptop |
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> died a grisly death. It kinda works for a few minutes after booting, |
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> then triggers a kernel panic. For those who want more detail, see |
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> today's post at |
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> http://www.collinstarkweather.com |
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> Problem is, it's built into the motherboard. If a kernel panic isn't |
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> triggered immediately on boot, I |
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> rmmod 3c59x |
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> which keeps the problem from cropping up and use my 802.11g card for |
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> networking. This has led me to some interesting questions I haven't |
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> been able to figure out. |
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> 1) I could recompile my kernel without 3c59x, but is there a way |
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> instead to simply keep the module from being loaded on boot? |
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> 2) My wireless card is set up as an interface named ath0. But no |
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> matter what I do, net.eth0 wants to come up on boot. `rc-update show | |
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> grep eth0` gives |
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> net.eth0 | |
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> Doesn't look like I can disable it with rc-update since it's not |
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> explicitly associated with a runlevel to begin with. Other than |
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> renaming /etc/init.d/net.eth0, which seems an awful kludge, is there a |
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> way to keep it from coming up on boot? |
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> Thanks, |
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> -Collin |
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