Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Jorgen Jonsson <jorgen.jonsson@××××××.se>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware and unregister_netdevice
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:56:15
Message-Id: 1156107269.7438.1.camel@satie5.saitek.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware and unregister_netdevice by Jorgen Jonsson
1 On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:35 +0200, Jorgen Jonsson wrote:
2 > I got both CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y and CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
3 >
4 > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 20:39 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
5 > > On Saturday 19 August 2006 00:28, Jorgen Jonsson wrote:
6 > > > I just started using gentoo and I was really surprised when I got:
7 > > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for vmnet1 to become free
8 > > > Haven't seen that for a long time in Fedora
9 > >
10 > > Did you enable module unloading in your kernel config.
11 > >
12 > > Paul
13 > >
14 Seems like the problem disappeared when I made a module of my net-driver
15 (forcedeth) instead of compiling it in to the kernel.
16
17 --
18 Jörgen Jonsson, Saitek AB
19 Vretstorp, Sweden

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