RHEL4.0 - modprobe.conf

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
>>
>>2.6 looks different.  First, check your /etc/modprobe.conf file.  Note
>>what driver the "alias eth0" line says, then do your "lsmod" again.
>>Look for the "mii" module.  It should show as being in use (1) and to
>>the right should be the actual ethernet driver being used.  The module
>>will be loaded but unused (because it's being managed by mii).
> 
> Here's my modprobe.conf:
> 
> [root at lcas200 etc]# cat modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 tg3
> alias eth1 e1000
> alias eth2 e1000
> alias eth3 e1000
> alias eth4 e1000
> alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih
> alias scsi_hostadapter2 cciss
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
> 
> And my lsmod:
> 
> [root at lcas200 etc]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> parport_pc             27905  1
> lp                     15405  0
> parport                37641  2 parport_pc,lp
> autofs4                22085  0
> i2c_dev                14273  0
> i2c_core               25921  1 i2c_dev
> sunrpc                137637  1
> md5                     8001  1
> ipv6                  238817  18
> button                 10449  0
> battery                12869  0
> ac                      8773  0
> uhci_hcd               32729  0
> ehci_hcd               31813  0
> e1000                  95316  0
> tg3                    79173  0
> floppy                 58065  0
> dm_snapshot            20837  0
> dm_zero                 6337  0
> dm_mirror              24989  2
> ext3                  118473  7
> jbd                    59481  1 ext3
> dm_mod                 57157  11 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
> cciss                  45221  3
> mptscsih               36605  0
> mptbase                47329  1 mptscsih
> sd_mod                 20545  0
> scsi_mod              116557  3 cciss,mptscsih,sd_mod
> 
> I don't see anywhere in the kernel .config that calls out wether an
> "mii" anything is a module vs builtin.   Would it be under another name?

That's odd.  Perhaps they're not mii-friendly.  Try "ethtool -i eth0",
"ethtool -i eth1", etc. to see which drivers are used for what.  Now
that I think of it, I have this on an FC2 box (also a 2.6 kernel):

[root at xyclone root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
<snip>
forcedeth              18881  0
floppy                 58097  0
sg                     34145  0
<snip>

No "mii" listed either, and forcedeth is the network driver:

[root at xyclone root]# ethtool -i eth0
driver: forcedeth
version: 0.30
firmware-version:
bus-info: 0000:00:04.0

Weird.  I'll have to investigate that.

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