Re: eth0 conflicts with sound card?

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

"Sundeep Holani" <sundeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Prior to installing my sound card, dmesg showed "eth0 detected at 0x320" or
> something like that. After installing the sound card that message no longer
> appeared... there were messages about the sound card being detected
> instead... doesnt this mean that the drivers from conf.modules are being
> loaded at boot time rather than on demand??
> 

The way it works is, your /etc/rc.d/init.d/network does a 

	"ifconfig eth0 up"

at some point in time. This causes the kernel to do "modprobe
eth0". The module loading is *on demand*. You can make it boot time by 
forcing it in /etc/conf.modules (can't remember the exact syntax).

The exact code that does this on demand loading is in 

linux/net/core/dev.c

Look for calls to request_module().

	-Arun


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