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Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

From: Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz(at)web.de>
Date: Tue Jan 22 2008 - 16:38:11 EST

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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