Bug 8903 – Clarification of the Final network configuration section

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Bo Majewski 2002-10-08 12:40:35 UTC]

I think the "Final network configuration" can benefit from adding a comment to
indicate that 3c59x is a 3Com network module. It was less than obvious to me,
since I never owned one. The 3c59x looked like a magic number, needed by Gentoo.
Only after seeing an error message during boot sequence I realized my mistake.
Documentatin  should caution people to include modules they compiled. A good way
of doing this would be to include some comments in the code. I have RealTek 8139
Ethernet card and for such you need to include 8139too module.  Maybe something
like this:

Code listing 16.5: /etc/modules.autoload:
# If you compiled 3Com Ethernet card as a module uncomment the following
# 3c59x
# If you compiled RealTek 8139 Ethernet card as a module uncomment the following
# 8139too

# Etc., for other cards ...

[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-10-08 21:02:25 UTC]

I fixed this in CVS.

//ZhEN