On 31/05/2023 20.52, MA wrote:
* What was the outcome of this action? ==> No expected changes and the
driver for my Ethernet still shows as r8168 in lspci -k command
* What outcome did you expect instead?==> i expected the installed driver
to be removed and reload the kernel built in driver(which is currently nowhere to
be found)
which will happen upon reboot
Replacing the network driver would require stopping the network (and all
services using the network), unloading the kernel driver, loading the
new kernel driver, bringing up the network again. That works best if
done by a reboot.
Andreas
