Network question
 

I have recently completed an install of Slackware 9.0 and I am noticing a few error messages I wanted to ask about. Any help is appreciated.

The first message comes when Slackware is booting up. It detects my network card and then insmod gives a few errors. At the end it says that it failed but the weird part is that I can still access the internet. Here is the error message:

8139cp:10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o.gz
init_module: No such device

insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o.gz
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or the output from dmesg

insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o.gz: insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o.gz failed

insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o.gz:
insmod 8139cp failed

I would like to know if there is a solution to this error message, because my internet seems to be working fine. I have not checked it for speed yet but the card and connection seem to be working. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

That's your ethernet card. If you don't have a local area network, disable bringing up eth0 on startup and the errors should dissappear.

Make sure you don't have these modules trying to load from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

Add the module 8139cp to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and the error message goes away.
I got the same error when i first installed 9.0 and its because hotplug cant see if its the 8139cp or 3189to module that should be loaded for the network card.

Apparently, that card doesn't identify itsself completely and there are two modules, 8139cp and 8139too available for it.

If you are using the card and it is working, apparently it has the correct module loaded.

su - and do

lsmod

Look through the list and you will see the modules you have loaded.