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djidji

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 57

installing a NIC driver and using it on startup

i just went through the process of installing a NIC driver but in order to use the nic i have to do every time computer is restarted

#insmod usr.o

how do i fix this so that the NIC is recognized as soon as the computer is started? thanks in advance...

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: installing a NIC driver and using it on startup

first do this:

# depmod -ae

If you can then do this:

modprobe usr

without any messages and the module gets loaded (check with lsmod), you can add "usr" to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf
if you get an error, try "modprobe usr.o"

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djidji

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 57

Re: installing a NIC driver and using it on startup

thanks for the response.

depmod -ae generates bunch of lines in the form

depmod:     softnet_data
depmod:     printk
etc....

modprobe usr did not return any messages. i made sure that usr was loaded with lsmod and than added usr in rc.conf in before network. however when i restarted the computer i had to load the module again. i checked first with lsmod and it wasn't loaded. any ideas?

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: installing a NIC driver and using it on startup

... i made sure that usr was loaded with lsmod and than added usr in rc.conf in before network. however when i restarted the computer i had to load the module again. i checked first with lsmod and it wasn't loaded. any ideas?

You put it before 'network'? That will be the DAEMONS array. You need to put 'usr' in the MODULES array.

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djidji

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 57

Re: installing a NIC driver and using it on startup

yes that wasn't really smart... thank for the clarification - everything works well now.