Hello,

I have managed to install KnoppMyth on my machine. I am, however, having a problem with my network card. It wont start up automatically when I boot up.

If I do the netcardconfig thing, then its fine (although the settings are already in there - I just press enter enter enter enter). But next time I reboot, it wont restart.

Can anyone help me? If you need further information, just ask.

The network card in question is a built in gigabit one, in an nforce4 motherboard.

Thanks.

From your post I cannot see which KnoppMyth version you're trying (whether it's KnoppMyth at all) but if you use a recent KnoppMyth version with a 2.6 kernel then adding



to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases should do the trick. Replace <modulename> witht the name of the module that is loaded for your network card.

willem,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Yes, its KnoppMyth. Sorry, I was in a hurry when I wrote that post. R5A15 I beleive.

What exactly do you mean by modulename? (I'm a bit of a linux newbie).

With module name I mean the name of the kernel module. The Linux kernel supports modules to be loaded to support hardware. If you run lsmod you get a list of loaded modules. One of these modules is for your ethernet adapter. Chances are that during boottime the network is configured, but the module is not loaded at that time. Later during the boot process hotplug will load the remaining modules and that is why netcardconfig works.
Adding the alias eth0 line will allow the routines that setup the networking part to load the nescessary module. I have no idea what the name of the module is. I'm sure someone else can help you with that.

Thanks again.

I've managed to sort it out. Only took about 4 or so hours...

had to use ksysv to change the order that things load up in.