Why are these drivers being loaded?

Jason Cortezzo jasoncc at comcast.net
Sun Nov 14 15:45:07 UTC 2004


/sbin/kmodule output is...

NETWORK forcedeth
AUDIO snd-intel8x0
AUDIO nvsound
USB ohci-hcd
USB ohci-hcd

So, I guess this means udev is loading the forcedeth driver?  How do I 
make it stop?  I can't find any references to "forcedeth" in /etc/udev.

-Jason

Jason Cortezzo wrote:
> This is more of a curiosity question than a problem...
> 
> I did a fresh FC3 install on an nforce system.  The eth0 driver was 
> "forcedeth".  I downloaded the NVidia "nvnet" driver and installed it.
> Everything is working fine, BUT when I do a 'lsmod', I still see the 
> "forcedeth" module (even after reboot).  I can "rmmod" the module 
> without any problems.  "forcedeth" isn't in my modprobe.conf or 
> modprobe.conf.dist files.
> 
> How/Why is it being loaded still?
> 
> -Jason
> 




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