reassign 405196 linux-2.6
retitle 405196 Two drivers listed for [11ab:4320] causing driver conflict
thanks
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:38, Geert-Jan Hut wrote:
The modules.pcimap for 2.6.18 shows two drivers for your ethernet
card: skge and sk98lin. This is unusual.
You can also try unload both these drivers (using 'modprobe -r') and
then, after only loading one, check again if you can configure the
network from the installer menu.
This worked, using the following sequence during network device
discovery I enabled the eth1 interface succesfully:
modprobe -r skge
modprobe -r sk98lin
modprobe skge
OK, so it is a driver conflict. Reassigning to the kernel team.
The relevant device is 11ab:4320. In modules.pcimap:
skge0x11ab 0x4320 0x 0x 0x 0x
0x0
sk98lin 0x11ab 0x4320 0x 0x 0x 0x
0x0
I completed the installation and rebooted, which kept networking
enabled. But after rebooting both drivers were present again. Removing
the skge interface disabled networking, removing the sk98lin module
didn't do much.
You should be able to blacklist the sk98lin module under /etc/modprobe.d.
You could check which kernel version Ubuntu is using and which module
is loaded during the Ubuntu installation for reference.
Ubuntu only loads the skge module. Assuming that the skge driver is the
only one needed for this ethernet card, maybe the other one could be
removed also? What is strange of course is that the combination of both
modules works when starting the kernel, but doesn't work when
installing debian. I will try to check if the order of installation
matters.
Yes, the order probably does matter and the order can change from one boot
to the next.
After applying the changes above, and rebooting I couldn't start up
GDM, because a number of drivers weren't loaded/ installed, such as the
xserver-xorg-input-mice, xserver-xorg-input-kdm packages. Also my video
card wasn't detected (correctly). Could this be caused by the way I
installed it now? Or should I enter another bug-report for this?
If you can find out a bit more about what may have gone wrong, I suggest
filing a bug report against xserver-xorg-core.
Cheers,
FJP
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