Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

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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> Ron Johnson, Jr.
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Travis Crook
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