built in support for device or modularized question

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 13, Tom Wilson managed to emit:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got a box running Slackware 8 that I am gonna use to make a firewall 
> and during a recompile of the kernel, I made the support for my NE2000 
> clone ISA ethernet cards part of the kernel instead of a module by 
> mistake and didn't realize until I was done that I did it.  

Doh!

> During start up, it finds the card and puts it a a DMA of 0x300 but 
> errors out on IRQ 5 with an error 22.  Is there a way to pass different 
> parameters to the drivers similar to the way of doing a modprobe and 
> adding the parameters to the end?  I looked for a config file to add 
> different parameters (and configure the 2nd card) in all the usual 
> spots but came up empty.  

Hmm. There used to be. Wouldn't it be easier to use the modules
though?

> Also as an aside, when running pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf, the systems 
> hangs and requires a hard reboot.  The only cards in this box are the 2 
> NICS.  Is this because the support is compiled in instead of 
> modularized?  

I wouldn't think so. But, see the (rather old) FAQ at 
http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/isapnpfaq.txt.

Kurt
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