In article <9d90add9cee5149497de755677a2e52f@TeraNews>,
Little Monster wrote:
> Upgraded to 9.0 last weekend.

Congratulations.

> My network card uses the 8139too module - this loads and works fine no
> problem. However for some reason Slack wants to load the 8139c module at
> boot time, which naturally fails - there is only a reference to 8139too in
> rc.netdevice.

Does the NIC work? Is it still using 8139too?

> execute as a result of autodetection? Or should I be looking elsewhere?

Add "8139cp" to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.
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