[eepro100] Twin laptops - one good NIC configuration - one bad
Donald Becker
becker@scyld.com
Mon Jun 17 20:38:33 2002
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, John Sved wrote:
> I have since noticed in the boot.msg log that
..
> Repeated attempts to not have this in the SuSE YAST2 network card
> configuration have failed. i.e. it still appears.
...
> There is also some message on screen about tainting the kernel with an
> unnecessary driver.
The Intel driver was not released under the GPL. Many (myself included)
consider that a license violation -- the linux interface is necessarily
a derivative work and must fall under the GPL.
> How can the e100 driver be removed ?
Delete the entry from /etc/modules.conf
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Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
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