[rescue] sunpci note: TWO cards now available
Gary Nichols
garynichols at mysun.com
Sat Jan 26 19:53:41 CST 2002
> The Red guys
> put any configurable option/file as far away from the user as
> possible.It is similar to Windows in that it tries to make
> everything automatic.
And this is a bad thing? From a new user perspective, this might be a
good thing. For *nix heads, locating the files to adjust isn't a
struggle at all. Grep and ye shall find.
> Nice thought, but it means at least twice as much work when the
> automatic crap fails, as it is wont to do often. Figuring out
> where to
> load the kernel module for a NIC (that's not auto-detected) for
> example,is a real pain. Adding and configuring a second NIC w/o
> the GUI is also
> a pain.
How hard is 'insmod modulename' and adding the appropriate entry to
modules.conf? Or creating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
by duplicating ifcfg-eth0 and changing the entries? 8-)
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