getting ethernet card to activate on boot
 

I am making progress slowly. My home Linux box can now get eth0 up and recognized, but I have to jump through hoops to do it. What do I need to add so that the kernel loads the module on boot?

I have an ASUS P4P800 mobo, with on board lan. I am using the 3c2000 drivers that go with this lan card.

Here's what I need to do to get attached to the network:

su
cd /3c2000
insmod 3c2000.o
ifconfig eth0 up

I'd sort of like to cut out those steps and just have the thing load at boot. I am assuming it involves /etc/modules.conf, but I'm not sure what I need to do to it, or if I need to do anything else.

I am running Fedora Core 1, since 2 hates my motherboard.

I tried playing with /etc/modules.conf and got a bunch of errors on boot, so I think I better leave well enough alone until someone who knows what they're doing can help me out.

thanks
shoe

solved it
 

not very classily, but it IS starting on boot now...

for those who might be in the same boat...

emacs /etc/rc.d/rc.local
edited it to read:

insmod /3c2000/3c2000.o
ifconfig eth0 up

I would still be open to any classier suggestions, but this makes me somewhat happy.

A more clean way is to add the following to /etc/modules.conf:

alias eth0 /3c2000/3c2000.o

I tried that, and for some reason, though it said it was activating the card, I lost a bunch of functionality and the card wasn't ever activated... It was spotty at best. It's kind of encouraging, though, that I was thinking along the right lines with that... Thanks!