Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:43 -0400, Mike wrote:
> On September 29, 2009, Mike wrote:
> > On September 29, 2009, Mark Misulich wrote:
>
> > With the wrong driver mine appears to work but is unable to receive.
> > The system tries to load the r8169 driver and I have to force the 8168
> > instead.
>
>
> OK it looks like you have the same driver issue I have. 
>
> When you reconfigure in Yast do you change the driver fron to 8168  each 
> time? 
>
> Do you have the r8168 module built for your curent kernel?
>
> have you added this to your modprobe.conf?
> ####################################
> #replacement network driver
> ####################################
> alias eth0 r8168
>
> and have you added this to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
> blacklist r8169

Hi,
no, I think that the previous post that I made was misunderstood.  The
8169 kernel module is built in the Linux kernel by default.  The readme
file told me to remove it, so I did.  

Then I compiled a kernel module for the 8101/8102 pci fast ethernet card
on the motherboard and installed it.

I don't have to change the driver from 8169 to 8101/2 each time I go
into yast, I just have to open up the Network settings, hit Ok when it
displays.  It starts network services and I can get on the internet.

Ok, that was how things were, but I just got the problem solved.

I checked lsmod before using yast to start the ehternet card to see what
modules were loaded.  Then I checked lsmod after starting the ethernet
card, and I found that the r8169 module was loaded, but not the r8101
module. I removed r8169 yesterday, but it was back again, and r8101 was
gone.

I removed r8169 using rmmod r8169, but it came back shortly afterwards.
So I added the comment 

blacklist r8169 

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.  Then I removed r8169 again using 

rmmod r8169

and it went away.


Then, I added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

###########################################################################################
#replacement network driver
###########################################################################################
alias eth0 r8101

Then,I recompiled the r8101 module per the instructions in the readme
file.  

I next made sure that my modifications from yesterday to
the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 were still there, and they were.

They read:
        DEVICE='eth0'
        BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
        ONBOOT='yes'

Voila, the network card connects to the internet as soon as the computer
boots up.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me yesterday and today to get to a
solution to this problem.

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