This is not happening an a zSeries box, but on an IBM Thinkpad R40e
(2684-H4U) which I am booting with SuSE 9.1 "LiveCD". The ethernet does not
work because LiveCD decides to use the wrong driver (tg3 vs. BCM5700). When
I do an "lsmod", it shows the tg3 moduled loaded with a use count of 1, but
no users. (what?). When I do a ps -Af, I see "/sbin/modprobe -s tg3" in the
process list. Why?

If this is too far off topic, I apologize. But I'm wondering, in general,
why would modprobe "freeze" instead of reporting an error? And how can a
module have a non-zero use count, but no users? Is it because the modprobe
has not terminated?

Thanks.


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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
UICI Insurance Center
Applications & Solutions Team

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