Re: ds20; sarge; 2.4.27; how to I force a particular NIC driver?

[mn <mailinglist@mn-ix.de>]

Hi Dan,

use the modconf Programm to configure your modules or change the 
e100-entry in /etc/modules to eepro100.

Hope that'll help.

Martin

Dan Cernese schrieb:

> I did a clean netinst/sarge install on a DS20L and found that the default e100 driver
> was highly unstable.  It would operate fine for a short time, but whenever
> any amount of data was transferred (a few MB), it simply stopped without
> error.  Doing an ifdown/ifup makes it work again.
>
> I found by chance that if I removed e100 and added eepro100,
> it runs normally. (rmmod e100; modprove eepro100)
>
> How do I make this permanent/across reboots?
>
>
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