[solved] Legacy m68mt-s2p Ethernet card not found despite forcedeth module

[Raveolution]

I have the forcedeth drivers installed but it doesn't show up in lsmod and my system still cannot find my ethernet chip on my old server box in Centos 7.3.

I just updated to kernel 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7 x86-64 and that's when this problem came up.

I'm being forced to use an older kernel just to be able to get online.

Forcedeth DOES show up in lsmod and /lib/modules/modules.dep when I boot into the older kernel, but in the newer kernel it doesn't show up in modules.dep, and I'm not sure how to fix that. Are there parameters I need to use to insmod / modprobe this driver to make it work? What other info do I need to provide in order to figure this out?

Thanks!

[TrevorH]

Are you sure you have the latest kmod-forcdedeth from ELRepo? It needed rebuilding for the 7.4 kernel series and the older one will not work.

[Raveolution]

Are you sure you have the latest kmod-forcdedeth from ELRepo? It needed rebuilding for the 7.4 kernel series and the older one will not work.

kmod-forcedeth-0.64-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

Is this the latest one?

Edit: my problematic new kernel says it's the latest one...

[TrevorH]

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kmod-forcedeth.x86_64                               0.64-3.el7.elrepo                               elrepo

So, no, you don't have the latest version. This is also a good reason for installing the elrepo-release package from them and keeping their repo enabled. If that had been the case yum would automatically have pulled in the newer kmod-forcedeth for you and installed it at the same time as the rest of the 7.4 update.

[Raveolution]

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kmod-forcedeth.x86_64                               0.64-3.el7.elrepo                               elrepo

So, no, you don't have the latest version. This is also a good reason for installing the elrepo-release package from them and keeping their repo enabled. If that had been the case yum would automatically have pulled in the newer kmod-forcedeth for you and installed it at the same time as the rest of the 7.4 update.

Ah hah, I do remember my other system did have the elrepo, I thought I had it installed on all systems.

I will give this a try when I get home and see if it fixes everything.

Edit: Yup, that worked. My server is back online! Thanks a heck of a lot!