built in support for device or modularized question

[Tom Wilson]

On Saturday 13 April 2002 10 22:55 pm, Kurt Wall's voice rose above the 
ones in my head and declared:
> 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!

Yes... deep 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?

Yeah but I was trying to get out of recompiling again.  Just time 
consuming on this old beater.  

>
> > 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.

On my way there now....

Thanks Kurt.

>
> Kurt