e100 misbehaviour

[Alexander Apprich]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Remco Poelstra wrote:
> ...
> 
>> That doesn't work. It leaves me with both eepro100 and e100 drivers, 
>> which makes it all worse...
> 
> 
> Hm, I tried this, and you're right.
> 
> However, it uses the eepro100 driver, as I could unload the e100
> driver by:
> 
> rmmod e100
> 
> and the network is still working.
> 
> Mogens
> 
> 

that's because it only uses the eepro100 module for the NIC. If
you want to switch modules for NIC you have to reboot after you
changed /etc/modprobe.conf
Shutting down the network probably doens't work out right.

Alex