cant load module eth0?

philfighter · 11-17-2001, 04:30 PM

what the hell does that mean and how i do i fix it... i am trying to configure my nic...

thnx ppl!

mcleodnine · 11-17-2001, 09:11 PM

Sounds like somthings gine a little funky in your modules.conf file. Try

Code:

grep "eth0" /etc/modules.conf"

as the superuser and post the results here.

xanthium · 11-18-2001, 12:26 AM

Hi ,

Just as mcleodnine mentioned the kernel is not able to load the correct module for your network interface.
Download the drivers for your NIC, install the drivers and then
the error module should disappear.
Try using "Kudzu" if your are a RedHat user .

Vipul.

philfighter · 11-18-2001, 08:45 AM

alias eth0 rtl8139

this is what i got when i did the grep...

Once i boot up and all and then go to the Mandrake Control Center, I am able to connect the ethernet card with the other box and no problem... it works!

Still on boot up i gfet a message, "cant find module eth0... ethernet temporarily uninitialized"...

other than that everything works fine.. if only i could connect to the printer on the windows box :-)!

mcleodnine · 11-18-2001, 11:42 AM

Are you running a firewall script?

prodigius · 11-18-2001, 02:10 PM

at the moment i dont believe i am running any type of firewall

xanthium · 11-19-2001, 10:45 PM

The problem it seems is that module is being searched for in the kernel itself and the kernel isnt bundles in with the module.

iam not sure where the modules are located in mandrake but in RH they are located in /lib/modules/linux/drivers/net directory .

try putting in a comamnd to load the module manually in one of the startup file such as rc.sysinit or whatever startup file you have in mandrake .

i suppose the error wont crop up .

Regards ,
Xanthium.

philfighter · 11-20-2001, 06:37 AM

how do i go about doing that?

finegan · 11-20-2001, 06:26 PM

Mandrake 8.0 has been really grumpy with network drivers. I have it on a laptop, so with the constant pcmcia swapout and Linuxconf and harddrake fighting for network control I think I'm about one more init error message away from giving it a Slackware enima.

You can try solving your problem with Linuxconf, or if not you can put the line

/sbin/modprobe rtl8139

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

which is the last thing that Init runs. This is kinda cheating. Also you could stick your network configuration in there... like

/sbin/dhcpcd eth0 #for dhcp or
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up #for manual

Luck,

Finegan