[vortex] Re: wakeup on lan enable without compiling as module

Thomas Glanzmann sithglan at stud.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Sep 6 12:37:42 PDT 2005


Hello,

* Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan at stud.uni-erlangen.de> [050906 20:53]:
> I would like to build the 3c59x vortex module into the kernel (not as
> module) but don't loose the ability to use wakeup-on-lan. Because it
> seems to be impossible to specify 'module parameters' to a built-in
> kernel module I tried the following patch, which doesn't work for me.
> Could someone enlighten me how I can get the expected behaviour?

I just got a private eMail with the solution. You can provide module
parameters using the following syntax:

	3c59x.enable_wol=1

and it works as expected.

Thanks,
	Thomas


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