Replacing modules

phyrko · 03-29-2007, 05:27 AM

What procedure should I go through to replace the modules sky2 and sk98lin with skge?

I am having trouble with the Wake On LAN feature of my Marvell Yukon Gigabit NIC (i.e. the feature is not recognised with the default Ubuntu modules of sky2 and sk98lin) and I have read that skge may well sort me out.

I have added

Code:

blacklist sky2 
blacklist sk98lin

to my /etc/modules.d/blacklist file and the line

Code:

alias eth0 skge

to /etc/modules.d/aliases. I get 'device eth0 not recognised' when I do

Code:

# sudo ethtool -i eth0

after reboot in this configuration, however. Have I missed something?

phyrko · 03-29-2007, 06:35 AM

OK. Seems I did miss something: the /etc/modules file.

The problem I was facing was actually that Ubuntu was loading sky2 by default every time until I blacklisted only sky2 and did

Code:

alias eth0 sk98lin

in /etc/modules.d/aliases

WOL status is visible with ethtool now. Still doesn't work though.

cseanburns · 04-07-2007, 01:44 AM

read the man page for 'modprobe'. hth.