Hi,

I have a ISA ne2000 network card that I am trying to setup with Vector Linux 4.3 beta 2 (Slackware based). The problem is that:

modprobe ne irq=10 io=0x300

Returns an error: Modual not found.

The kernel is 2.6.7.
This card works with Mandrake 10 and Feather Linux, but Vector is twice as fast as Mandrake 10 on my Pentium 233.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Sygin

are you sure the module you try to load is compiled into the kernel at all? when kernel is compiled, there are three options you can choose from when you deal with a module:

1) compile it in the kernel
2) compile it as a module (that can then be loaded, modprobe'd)
3) leave it off

so if it isn't compiled into the kernel (the device won't work that needs it), and the module cannot be found, then it quite surely isn't in the kernel. this can be dealt with, if you just wish, by getting the kernel sources and recompiling the kernel and adding the module during this process.

I am simply using the 2.4 kernel - downloaded source from kernel.org and compiled it on P1. Took over 4 hours. The network card now works.

I was very suprised at how easy it was to compile and install the Linux Kernel. It basicaly consists of a few commands:

make menuconfig //allows you to chose optimisations for CPU etc
make dep
make clean
make modules //makes modules ie: ne2000 'ne' module
make bzImage //makes the kernel
make install //installs kernel to /boot
make modules_install //installs modules

NB: you must edit 'Makefile' in the main source directory to include the line:
export install path=/boot //or somthing like this

All run in the kernel source directory in /usr/src/linux-2.4.26 as root.

Cheers
sygin