Hi, I have Marvel Yukon Ethernet adapter, if I modprobe it, then it works:
I dont want to do it all the time.
I would like to know what to write in the /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf files.

You can either put the name of the module in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, or write the same command (/sbin/modprobe sk98lin) in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, to load the module at startup

rc.modules is where it's supposed to go. If you put it into rc.local then your network sript ( rc.inet1 ) has already run and you won't get a connection anyway unless you manually re-run it.

Loading the driver is either the task of the hotplug subsystem, but if that fails to recognize your card, you can add a "modprobe" command in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice yourself. That file "rc.netdevice" may not yet exist by the way. If the Slackware installer had recognized your card, or i fyou would have known at that time what module you needed, it would have setup that file for you automatically. This is the way to do it by hand:
Add this single line to it:
And after saving the file, make it executable:
Now, try to reboot and see what happens.

Eric

Add this line to the file /etc/modules.conf (2.4 kernel) or /etc/modprobe.conf (2.6 kernel)

Thank you for your answers, I chose the rc.modules version and it worked.

I had the same problem, dont_stop_me. I didn't have to do all the things folks have mentioned so far.

I downloaded the latest version of the SK98LIN driver from the 3Com driver downloads web site. It's the first driver listed on that page. It came with an installation shell script that I ran after I untarred the tar file. I selected the Installation Mode option, not the kernel patch option. It compiled the driver source and stuck the object module in /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin

I can't see where the install script stuck an insmod command anywhere to load the driver, but the eth0 interface now comes up during boot. It's not in rc.local or rc.modules. So I don't understand exactly why it works, but it does.