On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Perry Hoekstra wrote:

> Question: How do you swap out network drivers?
> 
> I need to replace the eepro100 driver I am currently running with an
> e100 driver in an attempt to resolve some network problems.  I tried
> bringing down eth0, loading and the e100 driver and then bringing eth0
> back up but there was no joy.  In addition I went poking around my
> startup scripts to find which one loaded the network driver on startup
> but could not find it.  Anyone know which RH 7.2 startup script loads
> the network driver?
> 
Look in /etc/modules.conf.  You'll see a line that looks something like 
alias eth0 eepro100.  You probably need to change it to alias eth0 e100, 
or whatever the name of the loadable module is for your new driver.  Also, 
if you have any option lines for your ethernet driver, you'll need to 
either comment them, or make sure they work with your new driver, and then 
reboot.

Caveat: I haven't had to mess with this stuff for a while, as my last 
several installations I have done have been detected correctly on install, 
so I may be forgetting something and/or have forgotten something, but I'm 
pretty sure modules.conf is where you need to change your driver.

Dan