Hi there, some system just recently displays via dmesg, that some realtek ethernet driver should be changed into some newer ethernet driver. I kind of only remember modprove and all this stuff from ancient days of linux only. Never cared much for this ever since Linux became nicer in plug and play and selecting drivers automatically or distros putty mainstream modules into the shipped kernels. Where does a leap 42.1 exactly get its modules from? Do modules become merged and integrated into the kernel boot image directly, or are they really loaded from /lib/modules/.... ? How does this work currently? Presently I have: /lib/modules/4.1.34-33-default/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek # ls -lart total 288 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135578 Oct 20 14:40 r8169.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22682 Oct 20 14:40 atp.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68890 Oct 20 14:40 8139too.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53034 Oct 20 14:40 8139cp.ko and dmesg complains briefly about: [ 0.441916] pci 0000:0x:0y.0: [10ec:8139] type 00 class 0x020000 [ 0.442093] pci 0000:0x:0y.0: [10ec:8139] type 00 class 0x020000 [ 12.714737] 8139cp: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) [ 12.714746] 8139cp 0000:0x:0y.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too [ 12.714762] 8139cp 0000:0x:0y.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too [ 12.715466] 8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [ 12.716356] 8139too 0000:0x:0y.0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffc90001be2000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 00 [ 12.717109] 8139too 0000:0x:0y.0 eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffc90001be4000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 00 Does mkinitrd or the newer dracut put modules somehow directly into the kernel images or secondary files grouping together or do those .ko get loaded by the kernel itself during boot-time from the real disk? /etc/modprobe.d/ doesnt have any 8139 or rtl named stuff anywhere inside. Thanks for all the help -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org