e100 misbehaviour

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:54 +0100, Remco Poelstra wrote:
> Alexander Apprich wrote:
> > hwconf comes from kudzu. Try changing the driver: e100 to driver: e1000
> > or driver = unknown. To me it seems that the module gets loaded before
> > /etc/modprobe.conf is reached at boot time. Did you try configuring the
> > NIC using kudzu or something else e.g. system-config-network*?
> 
> But, if I do a manual modprobe e1000 (with no other driver loaded) then 
> my card doesn't work. Is it wise to do this then?
> I can't remember doing anything to my network card, so I suppose the 
> Fedora install has configured it. It worked right away after install AFAIK.
> 
> Remco
> 

Make sure there is nothing in /etc/modprobe.conf.dist referencing eth0.
I do not see why there should be, but I found a reference to a sound
card I had removed.

Bob...