changing network card driver

changing network card driver

[dave]

I have a Nvidia network card.  I'm using the 64 bit Suse 9.2 and that uses the
forcedeth driver.  I'm having problems with the network staying up.  I have to
restart the computer or the network every few minutes.   I'm wondering how to
remove the forcedeth driver and use the nvidia supplied driver.  Can anyone
give me a general explanation on this.  I think if I can remove the forcedeth
driver and I can go ahead and install the nvidia driver using nvidia's install
script.
  Thanks for your time.
Dave


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Re: changing network card driver

[joy merwin monteiro]

Hi,

first of all , is the present driver compiled into the kernel or as a module?

If first option, you will need to compile a new kernel eithout the driver.

if second, easy, goto /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/drivers and delete
the module
which will be there somewhere. 

Then modify ( delete)  the entry in your modules.conf or
modprobe.conf, whichever is applicable.

then you can go ahead with the nvidia driver install.


regards,

Joy.M.monteiro


On Sat,  8 Jan 2005 09:37:32 -0800, dave@dpomeroy.com <dave@dpomeroy.com> wrote:
> I have a Nvidia network card.  I'm using the 64 bit Suse 9.2 and that uses the
> forcedeth driver.  I'm having problems with the network staying up.  I have to
> restart the computer or the network every few minutes.   I'm wondering how to
> remove the forcedeth driver and use the nvidia supplied driver.  Can anyone
> give me a general explanation on this.  I think if I can remove the forcedeth
> driver and I can go ahead and install the nvidia driver using nvidia's install
> script.
>   Thanks for your time.
> Dave
> 
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