kernel wants the wrong driver for my NIC

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 19 June 2009 1:24:29 pm Michael Gass wrote:
> I'm running 7.2-stable and I replaced an old ISA NIC with 
> a D-Link DFE-530TX+  card.  According to the manual, the
> correct driver for this card is rl driver.  The kernel
> insists on using the vr driver which is for the DFE-530TX.
> >From what I can tell, the two cards have different chipsets
> and so the drivers are not compatable.

I would assume the vr(4) driver is the right driver for your card since PCI 
devices probe based on PCI IDs.  Also, the driver has worked well enough to 
read a MAC address, etc. (have you compared it with the sticker on the card, 
if it matches vr(4) is almost _certainly_ the correct driver).

-- 
John Baldwin