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Re: ethernet driver unloads itself??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nitesh Dhanjani)
Fri Nov 6 22:06:04 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:08:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Nitesh Dhanjani <nitesh@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, dsb3 wrote:
> 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
>
thanks for the response. how do i do (2)?
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