On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:07 -0500 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I have just gotten a computer with a Super Micro c2sbe > Motherboard. Now I also bought a dual port PCI Express ethernet > card. Now the normal kernel driver in my 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 does not > recognize the ethernet port on the motherboard, only the dual port > PCI Express card. So I found an Intel driver which seemed to be a > later version of the e1000 driver and installed it. > > Now the strange part is that in order for the Ethernet on the mb to be > recognized, I must rmmod and modprobe the module again and blacklist > it from udev, although the later seemed not to do much. Does > anyone know why I must do such a thing? If I don't do the rmmod and > modprobe the dual port card is still recognized, but the mb one is > not.. > > Thanks in advance for your help. You might consider asking the source of the driver. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
