On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 18:18 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote: > Hello, > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 16:08 schrieb Daniel Bauer: > > > In SUSE 10 unload the tulip driver and then load the dmfe first. > > > This sounds like a driver issue. Looking at the docs this does not > > > appear to be a tulip family driver. If you have the kernel sources > > > installed look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking for more > > > information. On the SuSE 9.x box show the results of lsmod | grep > > > tulip. > > > > Ok, thanks! This works so far, it seems that Suse10 recognises the > > Davicom card wrongly. I typed: > > > > rmmod tulip > > modprobe dmfe > > ifconfig eth0 up > > > > Then ping (and internet access) works. So, I went to > > Yast/network devices/network card > > and changed the "hardware details" of the card: > > - gave it a new name "Davicom" > > - deleted the entry for the driver "tulip" and entered "dmfe" instead > > > > After finishing Yast, network connection was gone again and lsmod > > showed "tulip" again. Went to Yast again to check if it has saved my > > entries - it did. I rebooted, but same result: module "tulip" loaded > > as unused, "dmfe" not in the list. With rmmod/modprobe/ifconfig as > > above I can make the network running again. > > > > So, my only problem - for the moment ;-) is: > > how can I make the change definitive, so that "dmfe" will be loaded > > at boot and "tulip" not? > > Even if it is not nice, you could write the rmmod and modprobe command > to /etc/init.d/boot.local. Maybe the network script is working correct > then. (If not, write a small initscript based on /etc/init.d/skeleton > which calls the commands and add Required-Start: network to ensure it > is run late enough.) > > Oh, and please make an entry in bugzilla - this sounds like a bug. Perhaps a change in /etc/modprob.conf or what ever the file is in SUSE 10. Isn't this where some modules are set to load for certain devices?
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