e1000 module not loaded at startup

[Omer Faruk Sen]

The module is there as alias eth0 e1000 but it doesn't get loaded. It is
very peculiar. I will inform list if I find what is makes this happen. By
the way module can also get loaded explicitly adding network="e1000" line
to  rc.sysinit


> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
>
>> I think on power outage one of the files deleted by the fsck. I want to
>> ask which file or startup script loads ethernet and other networking
>> modules (such as iptables). I have manually edited
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network to load e1000 driver from
>> /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERS/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko which is
>> obviously not a good thing to do but solved my problem for a while. At
>> least until I debug the problem.
>
> the file is /etc/modprobe.conf
>


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