by Fred Yi » Sun, 28 Jun 1998 04:00:00
Hi,
Curious question:
I compiled enet driver as loadable module on Redhat v4.2. Why isn't the
module loaded
automatically when I boot linux with "ether=10,0x300,eth0"? I had to
add "modprobe -t net \*"
in rc2.d manually to bring it up. Is it supposed to be that way?
Also, where are the parameters (int 10, IO 0x310, dev eth0) kept ?
Thanks.
-Fred
Systematic Network, Inc.
by Matt Payt » Sun, 28 Jun 1998 04:00:00
>Curious question:
>I compiled enet driver as loadable module on Redhat v4.2. Why isn't the
>module loaded
>automatically when I boot linux with "ether=10,0x300,eth0"? I had to
>add "modprobe -t net \*"
>in rc2.d manually to bring it up. Is it supposed to be that way?
>Also, where are the parameters (int 10, IO 0x310, dev eth0) kept ?
>Thanks.
>-Fred
>Systematic Network, Inc.
by Brian Fahrlande » Mon, 29 Jun 1998 04:00:00
> >Hi,
> >Curious question:
> >I compiled enet driver as loadable module on Redhat v4.2. Why isn't the
> >module loaded
> >automatically when I boot linux with "ether=10,0x300,eth0"? I had to
> >add "modprobe -t net \*"
> >in rc2.d manually to bring it up. Is it supposed to be that way?
> >Also, where are the parameters (int 10, IO 0x310, dev eth0) kept ?
> >Thanks.
> >-Fred
> >Systematic Network, Inc.
> Did you also include support for autoloading modules ? If not, then
> all modules have to be loaded manually. If you did include
> autoloading support, then the module won't load until it's needed - if
> there is network traffic, for example. But if you want it to load at
> boot time, why not just compile it into the kernel, instead of as a
> module ?
It should look something like this:
alias etho ne
options ne io=0x330 irq=10
Then when you want to try it you can load the modules manually or
use (what I remember to be) depmod -a. I can't quite remember that for
some reason; check the man pages.
It'd also be a good idea to search DejaNews.com for this kind of
problem; this is the third message I've answered about this same thing
this week. With DejaNews you won't have to wait for a response, and you
get several different views on the subject.
Brian
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1. Ethernet driver question...
Well, I've only got 17MB available until I get around to
swapping some disks around. I created a 9,550,000 byte file
in 20 s by my watch, or about 500KB/s to the disk. I don't
know the specs on the disk and I'm not surprised that it's
a slow one.
Is that going to give a number greatly different from the
rate reported by Fetch? I used Fetch to retrieve the file
and to send it back. Speeds according to Fetch:
get: 91,000 bytes/s
put: 75,000 bytes/s
I don't know of any hardware reason for this asymmetry, so
my first guess would be some kind of inefficiency in Fetch.
But I don't know. In any case, this asymmetry makes me
distrust any benchmark that depends on Fetch. I have no
idea about other ftp clients. But that's why I'd rather
make this kind of judgement based on a real network
benchmark program, not by running real world applications.
Thanks for the exercise -- I learned some things about my
system.
Edward Reid
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