[Klug-general] removal of an unneeded module

[Karl Lattimer]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 17:53 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
> I am having an annoying instance of the realtek 8139 problem. Basically 
> there are 2 different 8139 cards and if the installer detects an 8139 
> card then it builds and loads both of them making the card unworkable.

builds? on fedora we have binaries.

> Anyway, I need to use the 8139cp module and the 8139too module is 
> redundant but as I can rmmod the cp module (the one I want) I cannot 
> remove the 8139too module.

as in 8139cp depends on 8139too?

> rmmod -f wont remove it (I dont think it was built into the kernel) so i 
> can't get the networking set up.

>From what you've said I think you should remove one of the two cards
physically, having two cards with the same chipset isn't ideal anyway,
it leads to other confusion. In machines I need two ethernet cards I
generally use the onboard (invariably an 8139) and a 3com because I have
them lying around.

> PS. Also why do you have to give the whole path to /sbin when giving 
> commands like ifconfig and lsmod in Fedora? It's very annoying!

su -

instead of su

its to stop people from doing stupid things, and is pretty much a
standard setup for su environments. 

K,