Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

[Travis Crook <travis@visionsbeyond.com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

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> On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 	I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the
> > driver used for the onboard ethernet card from the RealTek driver to
> > the nvidia forcedeth driver.  I have had no luck on Google today.  I
> > have the forcedeth driver installed (modprobe forcedeth displays no
> > errors).  How do I get the nic (eth2 at this point) to see this
> > driver?
> 
> Is forcedeth *really* installed?
> 
> # lsmod | grep forcedeth

First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth.  The question
is: how do I tell the nic (which is a RealTek 8111 Gigabit on-board
adapter) to use the forcedeth driver instead of the r8169, which is
automatically loaded on boot?

Thanks!
> 
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