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Old 04-14-2009, 04:56 PM   #1
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Linux Drivers after Kernel Upgrade


Hi,

I have a Samsung NC10. I installed the sky2 driver from the centos wiki to get the Ethernet card working. The Ethernet card worked fine even after reboot. I then installed the updated kernel.

In the new kernel the sky2 driver doesnt seem to work or map to the ethernet card. I also built the drivers for the wireless card. THis also works but upon rebooting I have to modprobe the driver to get it loaded. Also, the sky2 driver doesnt seem to work.

Is there a way I can get the sky2 driver to work under the new kernel?

How do I get the wifi driver to load at boot?

Also why I look at the graphical network config instead of seeing the actual name of my Ethernet card it says "sky2". How can I change this to say my ethernet card name?

Ive seen lspci output that maps drivers to devices but when I read the man pages I dont see an option for this. v and vv doesnt display this info for me either.

Thanks for the help,

Sugz
 
Old 04-15-2009, 11:30 AM   #2
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Hi,
How do I get the wifi driver to load at boot?
Sugz
Start the kudzu service. chkconfig kudzu on
reboot the machine. And see if it detects a new hardware, then configure it and then it will work.

If it doesnt work, i would suggest to add alias in /etc/modprobe.conf
 
Old 04-16-2009, 03:39 AM   #3
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[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep sky2
sky2 44613 0
[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig --list | grep kudzu
kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadapter1 usb-storage
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
alias ath0 ath_pci
alias eth1 sky2
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep ath
dm_multipath 24013 0
scsi_dh 11713 1 dm_multipath
ath_rate_sample 16640 1
ath_pci 231100 0
wlan 204016 4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
ath_hal 305632 3 ath_rate_sample,ath_pci
dm_mod 62201 4 dm_mirror,dm_multipath,dm_raid45,dm_log
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep sky2
sky2 44613 0


kudzu seems to be on by default and thier are already entries in modprobe.conf.
I can also see that the drivers have been loaded, but they wont map to the hardware. Is their a way to do this manually? like you would do in Windows, point the hardware to the driveer. Oppose to letting driver find the hardware itself..

Sugz
 
  


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