How to make eth0 driver permanent?

Under Fedora Core 2, the default NIC driver is e100,
and there was an entry in my /etc/modules.conf file
for it:

alias eth0 e100

I want to use the eepro100 driver, so I changed the
above line to:

alias eth0 eepro100


However, when I reboot the e100 module is still loaded:

antares:/downloads> lsmod|grep 100
e100 25092 0
mii 3584 1 e100


What do I have to do to make this permanent?


-Thanks

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:22:25 -0500, somebody <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Under Fedora Core 2, the default NIC driver is e100,
> and there was an entry in my /etc/modules.conf file
> for it:
>
> alias eth0 e100
>
> I want to use the eepro100 driver, so I changed the
> above line to:
>
> alias eth0 eepro100

Did you "depmod -a" after any /etc/modules.conf changes?

> However, when I reboot the e100 module is still loaded:
>
> antares:/downloads> lsmod|grep 100
> e100 25092 0
> mii 3584 1 e100
>
>
> What do I have to do to make this permanent?

I am not familiar with fedora, but if it uses 'kudzu' for hardware
detection during boot, which is assuming an incorrect module for it, see
docs for kudzu, to see how to have it either use the desired module for
that device, or not change it.

You might also check any network scripts under /etc/sysconfig related to
eth0 to see if anything there specifies a specific module for it.

It has been awhile since I used RH related distos. And I forget what I
did when my nics did not work when SuSE's hardware detection tool
incorrectly tried to use tulip module instead of DEC specific module for
an old built-in DEC chip, and rtl8139 module for a nic that required
8139too. But I think I just modified modules.conf, did depmod -a, and
disabled the hardware detection during boot (taking too long anyway).

In comp.os.linux.networking David Efflandt <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:22:25 -0500, somebody <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Under Fedora Core 2, the default NIC driver is e100,
>> and there was an entry in my /etc/modules.conf file
>> for it:
>>
>> alias eth0 e100
>>
>> I want to use the eepro100 driver, so I changed the
>> above line to:
>>
>> alias eth0 eepro100

> Did you "depmod -a" after any /etc/modules.conf changes?

IIRC FC 2 uses kernel 2.6, so he might should have more luck with
/etc/modprobe.conf.

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somebody schrieb:

> What do I have to do to make this permanent?

look for the alias in /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
and replace it.


>
> -Thanks
>


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somebody wrote:
> Under Fedora Core 2, the default NIC driver is e100,
> and there was an entry in my /etc/modules.conf file
> for it:
>
> alias eth0 e100
>
> I want to use the eepro100 driver, so I changed the
> above line to:
>
> alias eth0 eepro100
>
>
> However, when I reboot the e100 module is still loaded:
>
> antares:/downloads> lsmod|grep 100
> e100 25092 0
> mii 3584 1 e100
>
>
> What do I have to do to make this permanent?
>
>
> -Thanks
>

i thought Fedora moved to /etc/modprobe.conf. check there.