Hoary->Breezy ethernet driver trouble

[Vram]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:58 +0200, Neilen Marais wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two network cards, one a Via affair integrated on my motherboard,
> and a PCI Realtek 8139 card. Worked fine in Hoary. After upgrading to
> Breezy, the realtek card's module is not getting loaded properley. This
> happens wether I use the new 2.6.12-k7 Breezy kernel, or the 2.6.10-k7
> kernel that came with Hoary.
> 
> The problem is, that both the 8139cp and 8139too modules are getting
> loaded. If I manually rmmod both, and then modprobe 8139too, the card
> comes up fine. I also tried adding 8139too to the /etc/modules, but this
> did not help. How can I convince the module system to do this
> automatically? And why did it break my old setup?
> 
> Thanks
> Neilen
> 
> 

I had the same problem   with the k7-kernel


I was lazy and just reverted back to  an older kernel...

YMMV

Vram