Re: 3c503 & IRQ 2/9 & modprobe - SOLUTION (kind of)

["Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" <argathin iname com>]

First of all: Thanks to all who responded!

Jan Carlson writes:
[...] 
> It sounds like the module dependencies are not getting set up 
> when you boot.  rc.sysinit should say
> 
>   Finding module dependencies... done
[...]

Yup, that's indeed happening. I tried running depmod -a manually as well.

None of the suggestions worked, however. I *did* find a solution, though:
Somewhere, there is a clash between the 3c503 module and the sound modules I
need for my OPTi931 (sb, mad16, opl3, sound). I checked /proc/interrupts,
/proc/ioports and /proc/dmas, but couldn't find anything.
I finally discovered that all works well if the 3c503 module gets loaded
*before* the sound modules. Hence, I butchered rc.sysinit a bit to make sure
that eth0 is the first module to be loaded. Haven't had a problem since.

Just another of these solutions where I know the "how" but not the "why"...
:-( I wonder whether that might have something to do with that Plug'n'Pray
stuff...

Cheers,

Thomas

P.S.: As an aside: Compared to RHL 4.2, setting up the OPTi931 was amazingly
      easy under 5.2...
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