On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM, drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Plug,
> I'm working with moblin which is fedora/ubuntu like so I figure this might
> be the best place to ask. I have an atheros chipset which is causing the
> system to lock up, it's reproduceable with a few moves in the moblin UI. I
> have an alternate kernel module I have built and it will run on the system,
> however the ath5k/ath9k drivers are built in to the kernel and are being
> used by the system. Rolling my own kernel is an option but I'd rather try
> and avoid it right now. What is the fedora/ubuntu way of forcing the system
> to use a module instead of whats built in to the kernel for driver support
> for a given piece of hardware? I've tried aliasing the network interface in
> modprobe.conf but not getting any joy with it. Google so far has failed me.
>
I assume that you've put the module in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/somewhere.
Do you get an error if you try to modprobe it in from the command line?
Ali
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