[luau] Questions about installing modules

[demon_jr808]

Thanks Monmotha!

The information you have provided has been very helpful.

To get a little more specific, here is my current situation:

I have a PCMCIA NIC (Netgear FA411), which was recognized by Debian Woody
during installation. No drivers were required for installation and I was
able to access the Internet with no problem. The "NE2000" driver was
assigned to the NIC by Debian. That being the case, I wanted to see if I
could install the driver on my own from the command line.

I repartitioned my drive and installed Redhat 5.2. I assumed that if I could
get the driver to work in an older version of Linux, that same knowledge
could apply to more recent distributions. Anyways, the card was not
recognized by Redhat 5.2 during the installation process. Afterwards, I
attempted to install the "NE2000" module. However, I received "device or
resource busy". Next, I attempted to "hit-or-miss" by using "insmod" on the
various drivers within the /lib/modules/2.0.***/net directory to see if any
would load or work. The tlan.o driver loaded, so I assumed that the driver
would work, as oppossed to the other drivers, which gave me either
"unresolved symbols" or "device or resource busy".

Anyways, I could not get my NIC to work regardless, which is the reason for
my previous post.

Based on the above, I have come to the assumption that the "NE2000" module
included with Debian Woody is not the same as the "NE2000" module included
with Redhat 5.2. Given a specific module (ex: NE2000), does it change for
each kernel upgrade?

Anyway comments are very appreciated.

P.S. Thanks for letting me know that my posts were in HTML Monmotha. I
didn't realize I had it set to that.