Hello, this is my first post.
I am enjoying trying out Amigo on my old Compaq laptop. Thanks for the excellent work on this small, DOS-friendly distro, which I'm finding very educational.
I'm wondering if someone could help me install the CDCEther driver. The documentation that comes with the ADSL modem that I am trying to use indicates that this driver is necessary for the modem to be recognized.
Here is what I've tried so far:
After booting to X as root, I checked the directory /lib/modules/2.4.25/kernel/drivers/usb for CDCEther (and the other necessary USB files). CDCEther.o.gz is present in the directory.
Then I ran dmesg to see which USB drivers were loading at boot. I found that all the possible drivers mentioned in the modem documentation are solicited during boot EXCEPT CDCEther.
I've tried to use modprobe to load CDCEther. There's no failure message, but during boot modprobe cannot find CDCEther (see below). I've also tried the insmod command, which indicates that CDCEther cannot be found.
I've tried modifying the rc.modules file. Because CDCEther is not listed already I could not uncomment existing lines. So instead I inserted a line in the USB section following the form of the other entries there: /sbin/modprobe CDCEther. (This is the where the boot error message is coming from.)
I then tried adding the following lines to modules.conf (as indicated in the documentation for the modem):
alias usb-support usb
alias usb controller usb-ohci # (as mentioned earlier, this is a Compaq)
alias usb-eth CDCEther
CDCEther is never found and therefore no eth0 is recognized, so the driver hasn't been properly installed (in other words, it's not a network config problem). Any ideas about where I should go from here? Also, let me know if more specific dmesg info would be useful.
Thanks in advance,
sybille
edit: I decided to look at what is included in the kernel used in zipslack 9.1. I see that CDCEther=m, which I believe means that the kernel is compiled to support this driver. Thus, I'm hoping that the problem is simply a matter of my own ignorance about configuration....