Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> 11AB 4364 are likely the PCI Vendor/Device IDs. >> > > # lspci > 00:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) > # lspci -n > 00:00.0 0200: 11ab:4364 (rev 12) > > Yup, so what was the significance of this requirement after loading the module? I assume > it would start working once rebooted so long as the module loaded? Which I am still trying > to figure out how :) > possibly the driver as delivered doesn't recognize that specific version of the device, so needs a nudge to handle this specific device ID ? [this is purely a wild a** guess]