[Klug-general] removal of an unneeded module

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 18:57:38 GMT 2007


Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 18:19 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>> Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 17:53 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
>> No, as in the two drivers are for 2 different different cards and I only 
>> have 1 card and it needs the 8139cp module. The 8139too is stopping it 
>> from working. See here:
>>
>> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Realtek_8139_Driver_Problem
> 
> 
> move the module from the /lib/modules folder to a backup location
> 
> depmod -a
> 
> reboot
> 
> K,
> 
> 
It still wants to use the old 8139too module when i restart eth0 and 
complains that it's not there. How do i tell it to use the cp module?



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