3com 3c990 nic

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:13:49 -0400 (CLT), Xavier Andrade <xavier at zeth.ciencias.uchile.cl> said:

    > Hello I'm about to install a 20 nodes cluster, I want to use FAI
    > but the NICs we have (3c990) have his own driver supplied by
    > 3com as a module. Is it possible to mount a remote root
    > filesystem with a modular driver?  Or I will have to use another
    > card for installation and then change it?

You have to use another card. The boot kernel must have the network
driver compiled inside. This one of the few things it can't load as a module.
But maybe it's possible to compile this driver and include it in the kernel.

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 Thomas
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