[Gllug] What module does the Corega EtherII PCC-T pcmcia card use.

Colin Murphy SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Apr 30 13:43:48 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 30 April 2002 2:16 pm, Sean Burlington wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 1:16 pm, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > On Tue 30 Apr, Colin Murphy bloviated thus:
> > > I am trying to set up Debian on a laptop, and so I find myself
> > > without all of those friendly utilities that sort all the hardware
> > > out for me.
> > >
> > > So, once I have the module, how do I configure the network?  I
> > > thought I was to use 'netconfig' but that isnt installed.  Is there
> > > something else?
> >
> > First, make sure you have an entry like:
> > alias eth0 somemodule
> >
> > in a file in /etc/modutils/ (for more info, man modutils).
> >
> > Run update-modules.
> >
> > Edit /etc/network/interfaces (man interfaces for syntax).
> >
> > ifup eth0
>
> I believe you can just use ifconfig - specifying parameters on the
> command line
>
> Redhat provide a plethora of shell scripts (such as ifup) which are just
> interfaces to ifconfig

As it happens, that's pretty much what I did, after having dmesg pointed 
out to me, which showed that the module had been loaded already.

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Colin Murphy
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