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SubjectRe: kerneld no longer auto-loads eepro100 module
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just upgraded from 2.0.32 to 2.1.102 and the only bad thing I
> noticed is that I get "Delaying eth0 initialisation" when doing ifup eth0
> because eepro100 is not loaded by kerneld although my /etc/conf.modules
> contains:
>
> alias eth0 eepro100
>
> When I do modprobe eepro100 followed by ifup eth0 (RH5 script ifup)
> everything is ok.
>
> In the kernel I copiled eepro100 as a module and no kmod support.
This is your problem

>
> What should I change?
Read Documentation/kmod.txt
Kerneld is no longer necessary as of 2.1.90. It is no longer available as
a kernel option, as you may have noticed. You need to enable kmod support
in the kernel to get module autoloading.


>
> (Of course, I installed all the packaged mentioned in Changes, before even
> thinking about compiling 2.1.102 and I hope that modutils-2.1.85 are smart
> enough to detect *current* kernel rather than what /usr/src/linux happens
> to point to during compilation which was 2.0.32).
>
> Thanks,
> Tigran.
>
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> Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com/
> Escalations Research Group | Email: tigran@sco.com
> Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | Ext: 6796
> United Kingdom |
>
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