ZaZu Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 My NIC's driver is not listed by Mandrake 10.0 so I can't choose it but it is in the modules,drivers folder, how do I add it to the list so I can tell Mandrake to use it ? Its called "idt77252.o.gz" the NIC is listed as idt77252...even though its a 3Com ADSL PCI lan/rfc1483 aka 3cp3617...I think the "idt77" etc is the controller chip [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 You can load a module with the 'modprobe' command. Log in as root and type modprobe <modulename>. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaZu Posted August 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 I copied idt77252.ko.gz into my temp dir so as not to risk damaging the original "insmod" returns: [root@localhost tmp]# insmod idt77252.ko.gz insmod: error inserting 'idt77252.ko.gz': -1 Invalid module format and after I un'gzip' it [root@localhost tmp]# insmod idt77252.ko insmod: error inserting 'idt77252.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module "modprobe" can't even see it: [root@localhost net]# modprobe idt77252.ko.gz FATAL: Module idt77252.ko.gz not found. [root@localhost tmp]# modprobe idt77252.ko FATAL: Module idt77252.ko not found. I'm thinking this module is corrupt,or am I doing something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 You shouldn't mention .gz when you give the modprobe command :). Modprobe is looking for the module in /lib/modules/kerneletcetc where the module is called idt77252.ko. Try depmod -ae (as root). Then try again. However, this error : insmod: error inserting 'idt77252.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module usually means that the module you're trying to install doesn't fit your kernel (kernel is older. newer etc etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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