[GLLUG] monilithic kernel (debian 3.0) and ethernet devices

[Jo Dillon]

On Thursday 21 March 2002 16:54, Paul Donahue wrote:
>
> So basically, I'm stupid when it comes to passing arguments to "modules"
> that are actually part of a monolithic kernel. I have no clue what the
> above "ether" line is actually doing and could not find any doc on it.
> Basically it's the magic line at this point. If the kernel would have these
> as modules the options i would want to pass would be something like the
> following:
>
>
> modprobe 3c509 io=300 irq=11
> modprobe 3c59x debug=1, options=4
>
> any enlightenment (no not the window manager) :) would be appreciated.
> TIA

  You could try hacking the kernel source. The options are usually fairly 
easy to find in the drivers, so you can just hard-code whatever defaults you 
want.

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	Jo