Re: [E1000-devel] Problems compiling e1000 drivers

[Auke K. <auk...@in...>]

Brian McNally wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Auke. I was a bit concerned that my message 
> had even be sent to the list because the sourceforge web interface 
> hasn't shown any messages since 9/27/2006.
> 
> I'm using the PWLA8391GT card. I've got the full kernel source, and not 
> just the headers. I ran `make versioncheck` without luck. However, 
> copying my .config from /boot and running just `make` in my source 
> directory created the appropriate files. I was able to compile the 
> driver afterwards.
> 
> I'm having some problems actually inserting the new module though. After 
> running `make` I removed the old e1000 with `modprobe -n e1000` which 
> appeared to work according to lsmod. Then, I inserted the new one with 
> `insmod e1000.ko`. According to modinfo that loaded the same version of 
> the module that I already had (7.0.33-k2). Is there something I'm doing 
> wrong here?

removing modules is commonly done with `rmmod` or `modprobe -r`. The -n option makes 
`modprobe` do nothing :)

Auke