[ale] suse 9.2 and Realtek 8139 eth0 problems

j.t. holmes linux at jtholmes.com
Thu Aug 25 06:37:57 EDT 2005


Jason Day wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:22:29PM -0400, jtholmes wrote:
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>>Some how my kernel combined with hotplug and now tries to load the  
>>Realtek 8139cp driver
>>on the  Realtek 8139C+ chip which takes the  8139too driver.
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>The hotplug scripts are in /etc/hotplug, and the pci-related scripts are
>normally in /etc/hotplug/pci.  You could try a recursive grep for 8139
>in the /etc/hotplug directory.
>
>As a last resort, if you can't find where it's getting loaded, you could
>blacklist the 8139cp driver by adding it to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.
>Then you could load the 8139too driver by other means.
>
>Jason
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>
Thanks Jason
Good info. I did an entire grep of the whole system last night and i 
will review that
and do the black list thing.




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