[NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Sharing in Linux

[Mark Bainter]

Mark Bickel [eusmb at exu.ericsson.se] wrote:
> You've just made the module. Now place a copy in the directory where your modules
> are loaded and then do "modprobe -v dm9xs";note the results. If you are sucessful
> you'll probably want to edit /etc/modules.conf (or in /etc/modules/ or elsewhere)
> so that the module is loaded automaticly at boot time

You might have to do a depmod -a to get modprobe to load it. 

> Have you looked at the makefile? What does it say? I suspect you don't need to
> do a "make mod" as you have in fact already compiled it. Makefiles are just scripts.

Agreed.  Looking at the website it appears the make mod builds the 
driver for the 2.2 kernel, which you don't have.  Skip that step. ;-)

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