Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

[Travis Crook <travis@visionsbeyond.com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100
Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> wrote:

> 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.

I tried the line "blacklist r8169" and rebooted - the module still
loaded.



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