Broadcom 57780 gigabit ethernet modules not loaded correctly

[ilcica]

Hello, i installed sabayon 10 gnome on my dell precision t1500 but i have a problem with the ethernet card.
After boot i noticed that the ethernet card is not recognized, but after a few troubleshooting i discovered that tg3 module was loaded but broadcom module not, so i issued:
rmmod tge
modprobe broadcom
modprobe tg3

after this network is ok but every time i reboot same thing happens, seems that tg3 depends on broadcom modue but this is not loaded on startup.
How to fix??

Thank you all
Cristiano

[Fitzcarraldo]

so i issued:
rmmod tge
modprobe broadcom
modprobe tg3

I assume when you wrote "tge" you meant "tg3"?

I wonder what would happen if you were to blacklist the tge3 module but configure Linux to load automatically the two modules. As root user in a Konsole/Terminal window:

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echo "blacklist tg3" >> /etc/modprobe.d/tg3
update-modules
nano /etc/conf.d/modules

In /etc/conf.d/modules specify the modules in the order you want them to load:

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modules="broadcom tg3"

I'm not sure if this would work, but try it and see. If it doesn't, I'll suggest something else which might do it.