On Mon, October 17, 2011 12:35 am, Florian Philipp wrote:
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>
> I agree that the problem should be solved but just in case Colleen wants
> to continue with his installation (I know, he is installing Gentoo for
> the first time so I doubt he values his time very high ;-) ), I suggest
> he either implements my proposal outlined above or adds similar code to
> /etc/conf.d/net:
>
> preup() {
> if [ "$IFACE" = eth0 ]; then
> ebegin "Reloading broadcom and tg3 modules"
> modprobe -r foo bar &&
> modprobe broadcom &&
> modprobe tg3
> ewend $? "Failed to reload modules"
> fi
> return 0
> }
For correctness, please change the 4th line above from:
" modprobe -r foo bar && "
to:
" modprobe -r broadcom tg3 && "
I somehow doubt there will be a module called "foo" or "bar" :)
--
Joost
