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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:07 -0500 |
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John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi. I have just gotten a computer with a Super Micro c2sbe |
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> Motherboard. Now I also bought a dual port PCI Express ethernet |
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> card. Now the normal kernel driver in my 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 does not |
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> recognize the ethernet port on the motherboard, only the dual port |
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> PCI Express card. So I found an Intel driver which seemed to be a |
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> later version of the e1000 driver and installed it. |
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> Now the strange part is that in order for the Ethernet on the mb to be |
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> recognized, I must rmmod and modprobe the module again and blacklist |
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> it from udev, although the later seemed not to do much. Does |
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> anyone know why I must do such a thing? If I don't do the rmmod and |
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> modprobe the dual port card is still recognized, but the mb one is |
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> not.. |
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> Thanks in advance for your help. |
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You might consider asking the source of the driver. |
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