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Re: ethernet driver unloads itself??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Fri Nov 6 22:04:07 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:51:59 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: Nitesh Dhanjani <nitesh@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981106211203.21314A-100000@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Nitesh Dhanjani wrote:
>
>hello,
>
>when im working in my rh machine, my ethernet works fine. but when i leave
>it alone for say 3-4 hours, it quits, and i cant telnet from home. when i
>go back to work in the morning, and start up the networking thing from the
>control panel, and make eth0 inactive and then active again, it starts
>working.
>
I'd have to guess it's being autoloaded by kerneld, and then after a
period of inactivity it unloads itself to save memory.
1) either compile it into the kernel or
2) force it to stay loaded
-dave
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