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Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers



Travis Crook wrote:
[...]
>> 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!
>>
>>

Try to put the module name "r8169" into the file "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist"
before rebooting.
-- 
Regards,
Jörg-Volker.


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