Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers
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On 01/22/08 15:02, Travis Crook wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>> 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?
Ah, ok.
Is r8169 a module, or statically-linked?
If module, look in /etc/modules. That's where I put forcedeth.
Also, peek around /etc/modules.conf, especially down towards the
bottom in the /etc/modutils/arch/i386 section.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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