Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-02-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Feb 2, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/08 22:59, Johan Kullstam wrote: [snip] Btw are there are any motherboards *not* using this POS realtek? Every new board I have bothered to check had it. I guess some might have an intel et

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-02-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/08 22:59, Johan Kullstam wrote: [snip] > > Btw are there are any motherboards *not* using this POS realtek? > Every new board I have bothered to check had it. I guess some might > have an intel ethernet chipset. Unfortunately, newegg didn't

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-02-02 Thread Johan Kullstam
Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:47 -0700 > Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 >> Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Travis Crook wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> First one in the list, after running modpr

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-24 Thread Travis Crook
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:38:16 -0500 "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[snip] > > Well that never would have occurred to me... > Well, AFAICT that was only a fix for the underkying issue that caused > him to wa

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that never would have occurred to me... Thats probably because that solution was related to his original problem, causing him to want to switch drivers, rather than being the reason why the driver would not switch

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Well that never would have occurred to me... Well, AFAICT that was only a fix for the underkying issue that caused him to want to switch drivers. Since that fix made the original driver work, he no longer needs to

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 16:52, Travis Crook wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:47 -0700 > Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 >> Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Travis Crook wrote: >>> [...] > Fi

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:47 -0700 Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 > Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Travis Crook wrote: > > [...] > > >> First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth. The > > >> question is: how do I tell

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: > [...] > >> First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth. The > >> question is: how do I tell the nic (which is a RealTek 8111 > >> Gigabit on-board adapter) to use the forcedeth driv

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Travis Crook wrote: [...] >> First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth. The question >> is: how do I tell the nic (which is a RealTek 8111 Gigabit on-board >> adapter) to use the forcedeth driver instead of the r8169, which is >> automatically loaded on boot? > >> Thanks! >> >> Try

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:14:05 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/22/08 15:02, Travis Crook wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600 > >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wro

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 15:02, Travis Crook wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600 >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the >>> dri

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the > > driver used for the onboard ethernet card from

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi all, > I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the > driver used for the onboard ethernet card from the RealTek driver to > the nvidia forcedeth driver. I have had no luck on Google tod

Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the driver used for the onboard ethernet card from the RealTek driver to the nvidia forcedeth driver. I have had no luck on Google today. I have the forcedeth driver installed (modprobe forcedeth displays no errors). How do