[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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