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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

On 12 May 2004 at 13:25, Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> On 12 May 2004 at 12:18, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > Is it possible instead to just write and use a script to load the modules 
> > with the correct address and irq?  I tried this with plip and could not 
> > get the script to work, though typing the five lines manually worked.
> 
> Sindi,
> 
> It should be possible. I will reboot to BL2.1 and look at module loading.
> 
> As I may have said, I most recently have the module for my NIC loaded from 
> rc.S, which I think is a script that is executed on startup.
> 
> But one would think that modules can be loaded from a script to be run from 
> the command line.
> 
> Sorry, I haven't been following this closely, and you may be talking about 
> BL3?  Should be generally the same regarding syntax, though.

Here's testit, which I did chmod +x  to before executing it.

It works, but there are error? messages at the bottom of the result, which 
I can't recall:  "SNMLBNISS  resource busy", or some such

-------------
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/bin/busybox
insmod slhc
insmod ppp
#------ ETHERNET  (using Belkin card)
insmod rtl8139
##  if DHCP server is on network
# dhcp                       
##  if no DHCP server is on network
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 up  
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up