From 9a1a467871e488618dc0e3f088d7d1057f24566a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:05:41 +0000
Subject: Make sure module gets loaded in cases where something else is using
 the desired device name (#163339)

---
 sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'sysconfig/network-scripts')

diff --git a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
index 7bd2ce01..201f0ce8 100755
--- a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
+++ b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ is_available ${REALDEVICE}
 if [ -n "${HWADDR}" ]; then
     FOUNDMACADDR=`get_hwaddr ${REALDEVICE}`
     if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" ]; then
+        /sbin/modprobe ${REALDEVICE} >/dev/null 2>&1
         curdev=`ip -o link | awk -F ':' -vIGNORECASE=1 "/$HWADDR/ { print \\$2 }"`
         [ -n "$curdev" ] && rename_device "${REALDEVICE}" "${HWADDR}" "${curdev}" || {
 	    echo $"Device ${DEVICE} has different MAC address than expected, ignoring."
-- 
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