Adding a new ethernet driver

[pankepasa]

Hi, I'm remastering the knoppix and I'd like to add a new driver which is
not in the kernel. It is the broadcom 1440 ethernet driver. I've got the driver and
compiled/insmod it in knoppix after a live-cd-boot and it works fine.

Now I'd like to add it to the list of drivers that knoppix tries during the
bootup and do the new remaster with it.

Thanks!

[pankepasa]

OK, I have solved it compiling the driver and adding in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh this line: 'insmod bcm4400' (this is the driver I compiled)

Well actually I have done lspci | grep Ethernet | grep BROADCOM and
if this returns something then do the insmod.

That works, any better solution??

Ramon Acedo

[LinuxBiker]

The Orinoco PCI drivers in 2.4.20-xfs appear not to support Monitor mode.

On a semi-related note, has anyone tried either of the following:

1) Compiling and installing a new kernel - plus modules - into a mounted hard-disk partition while booted from CD? (When you did this you would be CHROOTed to the /source/KNOPPIX subdirectory, of course.)

2) Applied a different (non-2.4.20-xfs) precompiled kernel package to a CHROOTed source/KNOPPIX directory using dselect?