Re: Twin laptops - one good NIC configuration - one bad

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206172007190.9472-100000@presario>
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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