kernel network drivers vs module network drivers

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 01:54:21 -0500, "Mike Grommet" <mgrommet at elucidations.net> said:

    > boot floppy...  So, several quick questions come to mind

    > a) am I correct in this assumption, that there is no way to make
    >     the boot floppy support these built in network cards?
Currently not. Somebody (not me) has to look how to create a
bootfloopy which uses an initrd so we can load kernel modules before
the kernel mounts the root files system.

    > b) any way to compile support for a kernel module directly into
    >     the kernel?
This should work for all (or most) kernel drivers.

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Gruss Thomas