ethernet module e100 wont completely blacklist inhibiting eepro100 loading

[koshari]

ok heres the details,

using 8.04 on a local system the intel ethernet card doesnt support the e100 module. no problem it runs fine using the eepro100 module.

in 7.04 i simply placed the e100 on the blacklist and the eepro100 would load and all was fine.

however when i installed 8.04 and did the same (blacklisted the e100 module) the eepro100 is seen to load using lsmod however the hardware is not available in ifconfig.

if i rmmod eepro100 and then modprobe eepro100 all works fine.

after a boot looking at dmesg there are 2 lines that suggest e100 is trying to load,

i realise that eepro100 is obsolete BUT its the only module i can get my ethernet to run successfully with.


so in summary i would like the machine to boot in a state where the ethernet was active without having tu run the 2 commands as root to remove and modprobe the eepro100 module.


workaround
thanks to the replies so far and yes i did remove the eepro100 module from the default blacklist.

it turns out that e100 is loading in the initfs process and stopping the eepro100 module from loading properly.

many thanks to enouf from the ##linux irc channel for supplying the workaround.


solution is,

you need to remake/upgrade your initrd. Add modules to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, then run it

so i added

eepro100

to

/etc/initramfs-tools/modules

and then ran:

sudo update-initramfs

.

one reboot and the network was up and happily connected at 100mb .

[chili555]

Is the problem that eepro100 is itself on the blacklist:

# replaced by e100
blacklist eepro100

I suggest changing this to:

# replaced by e100
#blacklist eepro100
blacklist e100

It's not clear to me, from your post, if you already tried this. I would then:

sudo modprobe eepro100
sudo depmod -a

Then I would see if this survives a reboot.

[mazamazine]

Same kind of problem for me...
I've blacklisted ohci1394 and ieee1394 as I can't disable firewire through the BIOS bur it still load it.
eth1394 was blacklisted by default so I tried to "unblacklist" this module to see what happen and after reboot, it still be blacklisted !!
It seems that everything I can do on /etc/modrpobe.d/blacklist is not applied...

[chili555]

It seems that everything I can do on /etc/modrpobe.d/blacklist is not applied...

What is the exact process you followed? What did you do to edit the file? May we see the current file"

cat /etc/modrpobe.d/blacklist

Thanks.

[mazamazine]

Here is the part of my blacklist concerned :

# causes no end of confusion by creating unexpected network interfaces
blacklist eth1394
blacklist ohci1394
blacklist ieee1394

And here is lsmod | grep 1394, where it still appears :

ohci1394               36532  0 
ieee1394              106968  2 sbp2,ohci1394

To see what happen, I also tried to comment eth1394 and reboot. It should appear but the result of lsmod still be the same...

[chili555]

Does it work if you also blacklist sbp2?

ohci1394 36532 0
ieee1394 106968 2 sbp2,ohci1394