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How do I add Vendor and Device ID 's to the kernel on boot

How do I add Vendor and Device ID 's to the kernel on boot

2007-11-07       - By Johan Booysen

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I'm not an expert on this, but I faced a similar issue with getting a
tape drive to work, whereby the driver refused to load at startup, for
some reason.

I eventually had to manually load the driver with the modprobe command,
and then had to use mkinitrd to create a new
/boot/initrd-x.x.xx-x.x.x.Elsmp.img initial ramdisk image.

http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mkinitrd8.html

You could maybe investigate that avenue, although my understanding was
that this is really for IDE, SCSI, RAID devices, and not as such for
network adapters, but I may be wrong.

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Subject: How do I add Vendor and Device ID's to the kernel on boot

Hello,

I just recently got a nice Dell Inspiron 1420 and I'm loading RHEL5
Client (workstation), I knew it wouldn't work straight out of the box,
but I wanted to get it running by hand for the experience of compiling
drivers etc.

I've dug around (and learned a lot) but I'm now at the point that I
have the new (unknown device/vendor ID's) which should be using my newly
compiled tg3 drivers in /lib/modules.....

I've tried using insmod and modprobe etc.

I don't know how to tell the system to use them upon boot. It's a
broadcom nic vendor 0x14e4 device 0x1713.  Is there a way to insert this
info in grub (as an "append" command to the initrd) and tell it to load
the needed driver when it see's that string? Am I heading in the right
direction?

Thank you for any help.

PS. I know I could just go with Fedora (or even load the new 8 when it
comes out) but then I wouldn't learn how to do this. :)

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